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It is an unfortunate paradox into which the political discourse on terrorism has been pushed. While minority scapegoating and majority victimhood had become the ruling order of the day, the Mumbai attack has suddenly swerved the entire terrain of deliberations on Hindutva terrorism and its connivance with the institutions of the State.

The Guardian, 12 December 2008
Mumbai was not our 9/11
We’ve forfeited the rights to our own tragedies. As the carnage in Mumbai raged on, day after horrible day, our 24-hour news channels informed us that we were watching "India’s 9/11". Like actors in a Bollywood rip-off of an old Hollywood film, we’re expected to play our parts and say our lines, even though we know it’s all been said and done before.
As tension in the region builds, US Senator John McCain has warned Pakistan that (…)

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Montréal, Wednesday 4th December
We at CERAS (South Asia Centre/Centre sur l’asie du sud) have been deeply shocked and saddened by the inhuman carnage and mayhem inflicted on Mumbai in the past week. We are angered that human life was trifled with in a cold, calculating and callous fashion. We offer our condolences to the many families in India and abroad who have suffered sudden and tragic loss. Whoever the perpetrators were and whatever their aims or motivation (…)

London Review of Books, 18 December 2008
Diary
If cheating in bed was always settled by the bullet, many of us would be dead. Gerald Martin’s new biography of Gabriel García Márquez reveals that Chronicle of a Death Foretold was based on the murder of the novelist’s friend Cayetano Gentile in Sucre in 1951. He had seduced, deflowered and abandoned Margarita Chica Salas. On her wedding day Margarita’s husband was told that she was no longer a virgin. The bride was sent back to her family (…)

The song is a tribute to Dr. Binayak Sen’s resistence to anti people’s politics. The song is in solidarity with his struggle. It was written on May 14 ’08