Archive for December 2nd, 2008

‘So why blame politicians alone?’

Shweta Singh is also dissatisfied with the media and the people:
Mumbai based author Shobha De and many others said that this is not an attackon Mumbai, but an attack on India. I am not sure if I heard similar comparisons when there were attacks in rest of the country. I am trying to pitch a [...]

‘..a game and a passing delight, a show’

Terrorism-and this includes terror resorted to by non-state actors as well as by the state-today poses a grave threat to the peoples of both India and Pakistan. Islamist and Hindutva terrorism feed on each other, while posing to be each other’s most inveterate foes. I recall reading some years ago-I cannot recall where, though-the perverse [...]

‘What went wrong?’

Dinesh Francis has done a four part series of posts on how the anit-terrorist operations in Mumbai were conducted- what went wrong, what, he feels, ideally should’ve been done etc. for instance, in the third post, he says:
What went wrong - Too many Voices:
Perhaps there is a hesitation to setup a unified command in any [...]

Whose media?

Gnani Sankaran challenges the idea that the Taj Hotel is an icon of India.
It is a matter of great shame that these channels simply did not
bother about the other icon that faced the first attack from
terrorists - the Chatrapathi Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station.
CST is the true icon of Mumbai. It is through this railway [...]

‘So Stop’

Sirop de Vanille can’t stand any more half baked misinformed ridiculous opinions and bright ideas:
If I hear one more person talk of how we should go to war or how BJP would have been better at putting these people away I will scream. If one more person tells me how our arms and ammunition are [...]

Another date added

Bombay Addict updates his list of terrorist incidents ( and victims) in Mumbai.

Bombay attacked

Sepoy, at Chapati Mystery, questions the experts in the Western press:
Then there was someone named Reena Ninan waxing eloquently about “our 9/11? on FOX News. Which, to the anchor, meant only that India must now act like US did (given the usual suspects, so far):
1. Bomb Pakistan
2. Bomb Dubai
3. Bomb Somalia
4. Bomb England
Here is Dalrymple [...]


Hearing the voices

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