Salayan sailors and Somali swashbucklers

While there have been several news and human interest stories about US and European victims of piracy -- and several articles about the Somali pirates themselves -- the perspective of non-Western victims of piracy has not received the same level of coverage. However, the BBC has a radio report here about the plight of one Gujarati community whose maritime economy is being impacted by Somali pirate attacks, offering a more poignant perspective on the impact of piracy than that of higher insurance premiums and multi-million dollar ransom payments from large shipping companies.