MUMBAI, March 1 – Ask Thomas Uledar how he plans to vote in next month’s Indian elections, and his face falls with the memory of what should have been a happy trip to see his sister’s new baby. Uledar, an English teacher, stood in the maternity ward at Mumbai’s Cama Hospital last November when gunmen burst in, lined him and other visitors against a wall, and began shooting them at point blank ...

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