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...country is so big that even if we have the information that something is planned, we do not know where or when.' SHIVRAJ PATIL VINEET, Home Minister of India, on the Aug. 25 bombings in Hyderabad that killed 42 people. Indian intelligence had learned of plans for an attack in the southern city, but could not determine the targets...
...Your coverage was good, but I was surprised that you dedicated half of it to Aryn Baker's story "Beyond Faith," giving readers the impression that Islam plays a big part in Indian life. Roughly only 1 out of 10 Indians is Muslim, and 60 years of independence have produced a functioning secular democracy in India and a failed Islamic state in Pakistan. Pakistan would have disintegrated into warring ethnic provinces had it not been for the billions of dollars that the U.S. poured into the coffers of military dictators and generals. Can we let India be India and Pakistan...
...Indian news channels often spice up bulletins with a chutney of Bollywood gossip. But for the last few days, television news itself has begun to resemble Bollywood, thanks to the song and dance over the prison sentences awarded to two leading film stars, Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan. Serious news anchors have weighed in on what a calamity the prison terms will be for the actors, their families, the film industry and the nation at large, while stories with perhaps more import - the possibility the government could collapse because of the controversial U.S.-India nuclear deal, sa, or terrorist bombings...
...being part of the conspiracy behind a series of terrorist blasts around Mumbai, India's financial capital, in March 1993, which left 257 dead and 1,400 injured. The bombings followed anti-Muslim riots in Mumbai, which were sparked by the demolition of a historic mosque in the central Indian city of Ayodhya by Hindu extremists. Dutt maintained that he had procured the weapons to protect his family from threats; his mother Nargis, once a leading actress, was a Muslim. In November 2006, Dutt was exonerated of the terrorism charges but found guilty of possessing a weapon. He began serving...
...short, the very darkness, the possibility of degradation, that makes his people (and perhaps their creator) feel alive. Most modern visitors are content to portray the contemporary subcontinent as a bright and shining Silicon Valley East. Many Indian novelists sit within the cozy traditions laid down by Charles Dickens and even Jane Austen. Theroux is the rare writer to see that the fascination, the power of India today, lies in the commute between the two. His characters begin in manicured, air-conditioned places, but it is the clammy grasp of desire, the smells and the slippery deals of the back...