I write this just days after the bombings in London. The thoughts here are not very well organised � more a spontaneous reaction than anything else.
Two things surprised me most:
One was the extraordinary bias that the media displays in reporting such incidents. So for instance, although about the same number of people died in the twin blasts in Mumbai in Aug �03 (52 dead, 150+ injured, note that in the absence of established procedures, casualty and injured figures are usually under-estimated in India), not one political commentator mentioned that.
More distressingly, …