Wildmind Meditation News
Nov 27, 2011
Mumbai attacks survivors preach forgiveness
On the third anniversary of the start of the deadly attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that left 165 people dead, the BBC’s Rajini Vaidyanathan reports on some of the survivors who are preaching forgiveness in a newly published book.
The Mumbai 25 – as they were known – were in Mumbai on 26 November 2008 as part of a meditation retreat.
Two members of the group were killed in the attacks, but the survivors hope that showing compassion will bring something good from a terrible tragedy.
It was a last-minute cancellation that led Linda Ragsdale to travel from the US to Mumbai in November 2008.
She …
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