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Grotesque Terror Attacks in Mumbai
In one of the most daring and yet cowardly terror attacks, Bombay/Mumbai has been attacked. In an earlier post we had discussed the question of violence – ‘revolutionary’ violence, and the utter...
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A Pre-Emptive Defence of an Idea of India
As I write, the siege is not yet over. These words may thus appear to some to be premature, to others alternatively unpatriotic or blasphemous. Perhaps this is precisely the reason to write them now: a...
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An SMS and an online signature
An SMS doing the rounds: Where is Raj Thackeray and his ‘brave’ Sena? Tell him that 200 NSG commandos from Delhi (South, west, east and north Indians!) have been sent to Mumbai to fight terrorists so...
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Victims of Terrorism
The multiple terror attacks in Mumbai are unprecedented and blatantly violate the most fundamental principles of law and justice. Regrettably, as Mumbai shows today, there is a huge gap between...
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“Mindless,”“Muslims”
Those two M’s recur, on this blog and elsewhere, in the heated discussions around the tragic, provocatove events that have unfolded this past week. I am reminded of this point Martha Nussbaum wrote...
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Hotel Taj: Icon of whose India? Gnani Sankaran
Gnani Sankaran is a noted Tamil writer who lives in Chennai. Watching at least four English news channels surfing from one to another during the last 60 hours of terror strike made me feel a terror of...
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More reflections as Southasians on Mumbai
Anjum Altaf has sent us two posts on The South Asian Idea that reflect on the terrorism in Mumbai and discuss how best we can respond as Southasian citizens: Terrorism – 1: How Do We Respond to...
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Equality of dead Souls
There is a terrifying equality of the dead in Mumbai last week. The provisional list of 169 dead carried in various papers has people from every faith (Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jewish), and from all...
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Thinking Through the Debris of Terror: After Bombay
Last week's terror attacks on Bombay/Mumbai, for which there can be no justification whatsoever, have targetted railway stations, restaurants, hospitals, places of worship, streets and hotels. These...
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Mr Friedman’s Demagoguery
Guest post by SAADIA TOOR and BALMURLI NATARAJAN of the South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI) A response to his op-ed piece in The New York Times, December 3, 2008. Among Mr. Friedman’s long list of...
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Sandra Samuel, Faces and the ‘Nouveau’ Media – Monobina Gupta
Guest post by MONOBINA GUPTA “The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of a cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalistic industry, along...
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Mumbai, the Hindu Right, and the Problem with Sonal Shah
Guest post by SVATI P. SHAH Like so many millions of others, I was glued to the news for days during the Mumbai attacks. In the aftermath of the terrible human tragedy that reverberates from those...
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The Battle of Mumbai
Guest post by BALMURLI NATRAJAN, a member of the South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI) The Battle of Mumbai did not begin on November 26, 2008. There was no clear beginning, regardless of what...
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The monster in the mirror
Arundhati Roy wants you to choose: There is a fierce, unforgiving fault-line that runs through the contemporary discourse on terrorism. On one side (let’s call it Side A) are those who see terrorism,...
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Looking Kabul, talking Rawalpindi?
Strategically speaking, that is. It is important to think this question through. For one, there’s hardly anybody disputing that the Lashkar-e-Tayebba was behind the attack. Pakistan wants evidence, but...
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Let Us Not Forget – South Asia Solidarity Initiative
Statement by the South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI) at ‘After Mumbai, Which Way Forward? A Public Dialogue’, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, December 15th, 2008....
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“I wish I’d had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back!”
Alas, the video has been removed fromYouTube. Posted in Media politics Tagged: 26/11, CST, Mumbai, Mumbai attacks, photojournalism
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Of Bhoomiputra and Housing
I was moving around Mumbai city on that weekend, mainly in the western suburbs. Several posters and banners were put up all over, announcing a call to a mass rally by Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray....
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A postcard from Bombay for Raj
Don’t think it’s a good idea and you’ll do it one of these days. Do it today! Go to your nearest post office, buy a postcard and address it to Raj Thackeray. Don’t be abusive, write a peace message,...
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The Suicide of Sense
Mumbai has been in the grip of a wave of student suicides this past month. According to the Mumbai Mirror, as many as 25 suicides have taken place in the city in the new year, most of which have been...
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