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 CommentsSting 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
My name is Vishal Dadlani. I was born in Bombay in 1973, and have lived here my whole life. I’m a musician.
Just like the rest of the world, from the moment I learnt of the attacks, I stayed up watching television. I saw our local Police try to figure things out, I watched our valiant [...]
At Nita’s blog, an email from a friend who was in the Taj on the 26th:
I wont go much into details of what happened that night. To cut the long story short – I was holed up in my room at the Taj hotel the fateful night of the terrorist attack. Managed to escape by [...]
‘Mr. Prime Minister. You do your bit and then ask Pakistan to do theirs.’
Published by December 6th, 2008 in 26/11, Government, Politics, South Asia and Terrorism. 0 CommentsKochuthresiamma demands that politicians get their act together:
We, the citizens are still reeling under the shock and baying for blood of the political leadership which let us down completely. But is the so called leadership concerned? They are back to their old games. The whole gang in Delhi (including the Defence Minister) gets closeted for [...]
The rationing of outrage
Published by December 6th, 2008 in 26/11, Capitalism, Media, Society and Terrorism. 0 CommentsWhy does my deeper reaction to something that holds more meaning for me make me a callous bitch who cares squat for more distant wounds?
Orange Jammies responds to the criticism that the rich seem more outraged now because their haunts like the Taj have been targeted, and to the attack on the media for ignoring [...]
Criticism and praise
Published by December 5th, 2008 in 26/11, Blogging, India, Internet, Media and Terrorism. 1 CommentSakshi thinks petitions won’t achieve much:
So thank you. But no on Petitions. Not even the one that says ban Barkha Dutt. Well, I might think over that one.
And commenting on that observation, bongopondit pleads:
“But no on Petitions. Not even the one that says ban Barkha Dutt.”
Please…..please…..PLEASE ……I want to sign this one and forward it [...]
Media and Government
Published by December 5th, 2008 in 26/11, Government, Media and Terrorism. 0 CommentsWhatever the media’s failures, Amrutha still stands by the right to free speech:
A lot has been said about the role of the media in covering the Mumbai terror attacks. And the government has often been criticised for colossal failure. But, we need to take a step back from the blame game and think. Who is [...]
If you’re thirsty, he’ll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food. He’ll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low.
He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands.
He can save your life – or take it, because [...]
The media adds fuel to the blame game?
Published by December 4th, 2008 in 26/11, Media, South Asia and Terrorism. 0 CommentsInam Abidi Amrohvi feels that a section of the Indian media acted a little immature by linking the terrorists to Pakistan. It’s high time that we work together on countering this threat together rather than play the age old blame game:
Replying to the Indian claims of the terrorists coming from Pakistan, a TV channel (News [...]
The politics of those above politics
Published by December 4th, 2008 in 26/11, Politics, Society and Terrorism. 0 CommentsAfter the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, it has become fashionable to suggest that we should banish — or, at least, rise above — politics and seek ways of preventing terrorist attacks, and of minimizing the damage and loss of life if a terrorist attack does get underway.
But it seems to me that any suggestion about [...]
The greatest casualty
Published by December 4th, 2008 in 26/11, India, Terrorism and World. 0 CommentsAnother thought provoking post at the Pak Tea House- Shaheryar Azhar observes that the greatest casualty of President Bush’s version of the ‘War on Terror’ has been the death of common sense and intelligence itself:
As I was watching the coverage of the Mumbai massacres, the Western media was so busy bashing Pakistan or talking platitudes [...]
‘Which way are we headed?’
Published by December 4th, 2008 in 26/11, Activism, Blogging, Democracy, Government, Media, Politics and Terrorism. 2 CommentsAmit muses over the rally and candle light vigil held at the Gateway, the unexpected support from Mumbaikars, and ..the future of this nascent protest movement:
Well. I will call the spade a spade. It was a huge turnout. For a change, a lot of people agreed on doing something together. But it was, end of [...]
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