Category: Terrorism in India

This was The Beginning…

….and the world remained silent…. For those of you who are not old enough to remember how it all started, here is a brief excerpt from The bushfire of Hindu rage (emphasis mine): …For...

Tackling Terrorism: One Step at a Time

This is probably a less lucid post than most of what I write…In spite of that it has taken me a very long time to draft this. Last Sunday, after hearing of the blasts in...

Shantanu’s Believe It or Not!* – I

A new series starting today with two news items… “The central government will be sending a package for orphans of the slain militants. Scholarships and pension will be provided to them similar to the...

On Deoband Fatwa, Jihadi Roots and Terrorism

Excerpts from a great article by Prof Walid Phares, “The Deobandi Fatwa Against Terrorism Didn’t Treat the Jihadi Root” underscoring some of the points I had made in an earlier post (Thanks to Krishen-ji for...

Make no mistake. This is WAR.

In an eerily prescient post a few weeks back, I had written: Our Kurukshetra is approaching fast. The terrorist attacks in Ahmedabad and Bangalore are merely the latest consequences of a mis-guided, half-hearted approach...