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Magazine Section / The Hindu, 14 December 2008
A weak and partisan State leaves each of its citizens weak and vulnerable, as the Mumbai attacks and the gruesome Nellie massacres demonstrate…
A lifetime is much too short to forget.
It was November 26, 2008, the day that was to become etched in India ’s history for the audacious and traumatic terrorist commando attack on the country’s commercial capital Mumbai. I happened to be on that day at a location as distant as possible from Mumbai (…)

Outlook Dec 15, 2008
A Review Essay
Lashkar’s jihad is claimed to be almost exclusively on behalf of Kashmiri mothers and daughters. For they know they must have the mothers in Punjab and Sindh on their side in order to succeed in their recruiting efforts, as we learn from these propaganda books
by C.M. Naim
The book is titled Ham Ma’en Lashkar-e-Taiba Ki (‘We, the Mothers of Lashkar-e-Taiba’); its compiler styles herself Umm-e-Hammad; and it is published by Dar-al-Andulus, Lahore. (…)

COMMITTEE FOR THE RELEASE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS 185/3, Fourth Floor, Zakir Nagar, New Delhi
13/12/2008
Press Statement
Condemn strongly the authoritarian attitude of the Orissa state government to stifle democratic voices!
Release Lenin Kumar the people’s writer and Abhaya Sahoo the people’s leader unconditionally!
The Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners (CRPP) strongly condemns the authoritarian attitude of the Orissa state government to stifle all democratic voices (…)

60 years of militarisation has made the people of India and Pakistan more unsafe and more vulnerable. If one’s child is killed, it does not matter if the bullet has come from another country or from the barrel of the local terrorist. We have paid a heavy price for our capacity-building to kill others and doing little to protect our own citizens. The oxymoronic ‘arms for peace’ pursuit has made people of both countries poorer in every sense of the term.