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...khaki were everywhere around Mumbai after the attacks, and 16 of them lost their lives in the blasts and gunfire, but their leaders failed to fulfill one of their basic functions: to secure calm and order in a crisis. Police and army leaders gave out little information to the public, and Mumbai's police chief, Hasan Gafoor, gave his first press conference to the hundreds of journalists gathered in Mumbai on Dec. 2, six days after the attacks. In the absence of any official line, sensational cable-television broadcasts and newspapers were full of anonymous police sources giving out conflicting...
...pictures of the days of terror in Mumbai...
...drama and pathos, it is possible to imagine the Mumbai attacks receding into the background because that has already happened for so many of India's other violent conflicts. Since the July 2006 bombing of a Mumbai commuter train, which killed 184 people, there have been nine other blasts in major Indian cities, killing 300 more. Naxalites, the Maoist insurgents who have made claims on a wide patch of central India, have clashed repeatedly with police and paramilitary forces, killing at least 175 this year, according to the South Asia Terrorism Portal. In Orissa, anti-Christian violence has claimed...
...Bombay Club - to oppose the reforms, surely unaware that they would one day be among their biggest beneficiaries. As incomplete as those reforms have been, they have brought India into its new place in the world. The attacks were an acknowledgement of that. The targets chosen were not just Mumbai landmarks but symbols of India's deepening connections to the global economy...
...answer to the challenge of tackling the inertia that still afflicts India is not obvious. Those who attacked Mumbai did so not with clear demands or ideology, but with simply a desire to tilt India's troubled state toward violence and conflict. Tightened security and better intelligence are important, but they cannot replace political solutions in Kashmir and Gujarat. Shows of unity and strength won't erase the pervasive culture of corruption in public service. There are no guarantees of the real change Mumbai is clamoring for, but, says Guha, "it's more likely now than at any time...