By Arvind Devalia
This week is the 10th anniversary of 9/11, that fateful day when two planes demolished the World Trade Center in New York.
Everyone remembers just where they were when they heard the news. I was working in the City of London at the time and watched the world-changing events unfolding on a screen at a hairdressing salon. There was an eerie silence all around as we watched in shock, hardly comprehending just what was happening.
We had an American colleague working with us at the time, who only a year before had been on a work assignment at the top of one of the towers.
As the Twin Towers came down, it slowly dawned on her that some if not most of her ex-colleagues and friends were likely to have been involved. Shock set in and I found a taxi for her, making... More...
