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...Today, much of this tension stems from India's rule over Muslim-dominated Kashmir in the face of strident Pakistani opposition. The war on terror and the 1998-2004 rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on a Hindu nationalist agenda - which also stoked a Hindu pogrom in Gujarat in 2002 in which 2,000 Muslims died - has lent further legitimacy to India's lurking anti-Muslim prejudice. In 2003, just before twin bomb blasts in August that killed more than 50, TIME spoke to "Umar," a SIMI operative, or Ansar ("guide"), who said his men were carrying...
...DIED. Pramod Mahajan, 56, general secretary of India's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP); from gunshot wounds allegedly inflicted 12 days earlier by his brother Pravin, who reportedly told police he was tired of being ignored by his powerful sibling; in Bombay. After the BJP's surprise defeat in the 2004 general elections, Mahajan was seen as the great hope to revive the party; his death leaves India's struggling opposition in further disarray. Mahajan, said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, was "a charismatic and youthful leader, full of promise and energy." Pravin has been charged with murder and is awaiting...
...India and Pakistan have been engaged in their first-ever meaningful peace process and taken significant steps to normalize relations. What's more, India's Hindu right wing, which rose to prominence by stoking sectarian hatred and held power from 1997 to 2004 under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is in disarray. The party has yet to recover from its election defeat two years ago and the round of bitter infighting that followed...
...would be naive to think that India has shed its Hindu chauvinism overnight. After the latest attack, former BJP Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani announced he would he embarking on a "yatra," a cross between a march and a pilgrimage, to protest the pandering to "minorities" - meaning Muslims - that he said had led to the bombings. Moreover, as relations with Pakistan warm, India's nationalist hawks are all too eager to find another "anti-India" bogeyman in the rising Islamic fundamentalist movement in India's its eastern neighbor, Bangladesh. Nor is the absence of a riot much to celebrate...
...reason that the city became India's technology powerhouse. That's why the psychological impact of the attack is immense-analogous to the impact that an attack on MIT would have in the United States. Jaswant Singh, a former finance minister of India and a member of the BJP, India's major opposition party, said that the attack could seriously hurt ?the internal, international, and economic standing of the country.? Terrorism experts warn that Bangalore remains an attractive target for any terror group looking to hit India. ?Attacking Bangalore would be a logical step for the jihadis at a time...