With the anniversary of the Mumbai terrorist attacks all over the media, Omkar thinks we ought to give all policemen more credit than we normally do:
Yes, there are Police Officials who create conspiracies, who fail to realize their duties, who act for their own good rather than that of a common man. But then one [...]
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Defending our policemen
Published by December 2nd, 2009 in 26/11, Government and Society. 0 CommentsMagali Vaz just saw the movie New York, and really liked it. She thinks the US is creating its own terrorists in the name of protecting people:
To the terrorists, any member of a western country like USA, UK etc. is the enemy. And to the law enforcement agencies, any Muslim man is a terrorist. Terrorism seems like [...]
Sting Operations….
Published by September 25th, 2009 in 26/11, India, Media and Terrorism. 0 CommentsArindam Chaudhuri talks about a sting operation where he talks about how an Abu Salem or a Kasab can enter India – despite being well known – and then systematically get a driving licence, a house ownership, a house on rent, a bank account, a mobile number and even a PAN card!
how easily we sell [...]
Filling his daughter’s shoes
Published by September 16th, 2009 in Globalisation, Indiaspora, Personal and Terrorism. 0 CommentsVartika is in New York and she lost the heel of one of her shoes one morning. Read on about the touching things that followed that eventful morning:
He just listened.
Listened to it all; nodded but said nothing.
“Right here this is my place.”
“I am sorry I guess I talk too much.”
“Not an issue…You sound just like [...]
Terror in Mumbai – Dispatches Documentary
Published by July 3rd, 2009 in 26/11 and Terrorism. 3 Comments(Update: The YouTube link was removed due to copyright issues. Channel 4 has made the documentary available on its site, but only for certain geographic areas)
Another Update: The video seems to be available on DesiVideoNetwork. It also seems to have been re-uploaded to youtube (will probably vanish soon). Please note that Blogbharti does not condone [...]
The terrorist in Hindi cinema
Published by June 17th, 2009 in Cinema, Culture, Geopolitics, Government, Human Rights, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, Society, South Asia, Terrorism and Violence. 0 CommentsPurdah is trying to figure out ‘the shifting figure of the terrorist in the Hindi language film industry’:
The military events at Kargil in 1999 launched a slew of Indo-Pakistan war films. A few were romance films on patriotic steroids like Anil Sharma’s Gadar: Ek Prem Katha, Yash Chopra’s Veer-Zaara, and Kunal Kohli’s bizarre Fanaa. The [...]
The Assam Agitation: A Subjective History
Published by May 6th, 2009 in Children, History, Human Rights, India, Language, Law and order, North East, Politics, Prejudice, Religion, Spotlight Series, Terrorism, Travel, Violence and Women. 1 Comment[ This is Essay No. 37 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
The Assam Agitation: A Subjective History
by Nitoo Das
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But then, I believe, all histories are subjective.
I was seven when the Assam Agitation started in 1979. I was ‘promoted’ to the next class without a final examination. I do not remember [...]
Bombay Addict remembers 12th March, 1993.
Another black day for Pakistan
Published by March 3rd, 2009 in South Asia, Sports and Terrorism. 3 CommentsKamran Abbasi at cricinfo blogs calls it the end.
Brave Sri Lanka did not deserve this insult, and all sympathies are with their players and the officials who have been injured. Questions will inevitably be asked about the security arrangements, despite the regrettable deaths of several policemen. How could such a high profile tour have been [...]
Af-Pak-Ind-Bang-Lankistan
Published by February 18th, 2009 in Democracy, Humour, Politics and Terrorism. 2 CommentsGo read the hilarious summary of this week’s headlines at the Vetti Guy’s blog:
Modi is now threatening to take IPL away from Jaipur if the cases against him are not dropped. First, Mangalore took over as India’s ‘pink city’. And now, Modi is threatening to leave the place. Finally, the tide is turning for the [...]
Dissecting the Mumbai attacks
Published by January 9th, 2009 in 26/11, Government, Religion and Society. 0 CommentsTanmoy Das analyzes the role each entity involved in an attack like this can play to avoid it altogether:
The complete ecosystem by which a terrorism grows to possibly ceases can be categorized in to three bodies; the terrorist who assault, the public who suffers and the government who has the ability to rescue the latter [...]
In India, the 2ndlook argues, there is a cottage industry of gun manufacturing and their use. The analysis stretches to the link between the effectiveness of the state executive and what it might take to raise a small terrorist group given the ease with which one can procure one. I’d leave the interesting read of [...]
Pranab Two-Face
Published by January 7th, 2009 in India, Politics, South Asia and Terrorism. 1 CommentSometimes it is good to hear the voices from the other side as well, trying to find reason. Here’s a link to a blog post from Ahmad Quraishi arguing (in perfect jury-evidence style) how “‘Paranoid’ Mukherjee is a four-legged clown”:
First Mr. Mukherjee said India was not going to share evidence with Pakistan. Then he said [...]
To have experienced Amu personally
Published by January 5th, 2009 in Cinema, Prejudice, Society and Terrorism. 0 CommentsThe movie Amu reminds Monika of her own personal memories of the riots of ‘84:
The house we used to live in had a shop run by a sikh on the outside and I still remember the way mom-dad and the landlords had to plead with those guys to not burn it as we were hindus… [...]
Ooh, but where is the proof?
Published by December 24th, 2008 in Humour, Politics and Terrorism. 0 CommentsPlus Ultra draws a fine analogy of Pakistan PM Zardari asking for proof:
We had positioned one of our spotters at a cafe across the road from where he had a good view of the window of the deluxe suite. Through the light falling on the curtains, he caught the silhouette of the pair kissing each [...]
Not protest, but being dumb
Published by December 17th, 2008 in 26/11, India, Justice and Terrorism. 1 CommentSanjukta at Mutiny feels that throwing shoes at Bush, spitting at SAR geelani and not providing legal assistence to Kasab are all one and the same – shameful ways of protest.
Back home, the kind of nationalism we are trying to show by denying Kasab, the only terrorist caught alive in the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack, [...]
Local governance
Published by December 16th, 2008 in 26/11, Democracy, Development, Government and Terrorism. 2 CommentsNandan Nilekani (yes, THE man) argues on his blog about providing more self-governance to the cities in India:
In a crisis, the city was thus left helpless, its institutions frozen in place. The power of city administrations has in fact, been deliberately hollowed out since independence, as state governments superseded city authority and co-opted its power. [...]
Should Kasab be denied legal action ?
Published by December 15th, 2008 in 26/11, India and Terrorism. 3 CommentsThough personally I do not fully agree with him, this is what Roshan has to say….
You’re kidding me, right ? We got this guy redhanded.. we got the pics, we got the bodies of his victims, the tears of the families who lost so many have still to dry up and we’re talking legal action [...]
Khalil Al-anani, an Egyptian expert on political Islam, thinks that the Mumbai attacks mark a turning point in tactics of extremists in the region.
The most serious fact revealed by the Mumbai attacks is that jihad is no longer an act of suicide, but it has become a professional mercenary profession for worldly gain, which may [...]
Adha Hindu Adha Musalman
Published by December 10th, 2008 in 26/11, History, Religion, South Asia and Terrorism. 0 CommentsWah Dutt Sultan,
Hindu ka Dharam
Musalman ka Iman,
Wah Dutt Sultan
Adha Hindu Adha Musalman
Accidental Blogger reminisces about the Hussaini Brahmins and Hindu-Muslim relations before partition. Please check an earlier post on the Hussaini Brahmins, on Blogbharti, here.
[Thanks, Rama].
Act now!
Published by December 10th, 2008 in 26/11, Personal, Politics, Society and Terrorism. 0 CommentsThey say it’s over and we should and we will move on, the way we have proudly and silently done in the past. But no, it is not over. The worst is yet to come if we, citizens of India, do not take the reins in our hands and demand certain things. Yes, it is [...]
‘The Mumbai attacks have widened the social gap, and blurred it’
Published by December 9th, 2008 in 26/11, Society and Terrorism. 1 CommentAmrit, in a very thoughtful post, says- you cannot demand safety without demanding social justice
Barkha Dutt rightly mentioned some time ago that the Mumbai-like situations keep on taking place in Jammu and Kashmir and it doesn’t move the rest of the country to protests and demonstrations. Why wasn’t there a mass moment for the persecution [...]
‘We cannot do anything’
Published by December 9th, 2008 in 26/11, Personal and Terrorism. 0 CommentsRutu believes the common man can change things:
..I switched on the news channel as soon as I got out of bed. Some lady (a celebrity I guess) was saying “we cannot do anything, because we don’t have the power and the common man knows that”.
I do understand the anger and hurt and the sheer helplessness [...]
The Muslim Mother Weeps
Published by December 8th, 2008 in 26/11, India, Poetry and Terrorism. 1 Comment Firoze Shakir has described today’s mood of India through his poetry. Hop over to his place for more.
a few weeks to go
before bakra idd
in a dinghy they came
killing in the name of Allah
the jehaddi game
non state actors
Muslims to name
operating from
Pakistani territory
Islam defame
Teacher calls an Indian Muslim student ‘Pakistani’
Published by December 7th, 2008 in 26/11, Prejudice, Religion, Society and Terrorism. 4 CommentsAdnan talks about a shameful incident that occurred in a Delhi school, recently:
A teacher who was upset with a Muslim girl in a Delhi convent school, called her ‘Pakistani’ in front of the entire class. That’s one of the instances mentioned in Zia Haq’s story that was published in Hindustan Times and this is immensely [...]
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