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...ready recruits," says political commentator Manoj Joshi, noting the anti-Muslim riots in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) in 1993 and similar ones in Gujarat in 2002. "It is a very serious situation, which has arisen because our government has failed to accept the ground reality," says security analyst B. Raman, former head of the counterterrorism division of the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency. "A growing percentage of India's Muslim population is getting alienated. They are increasingly acquiring their own expertise, and they continue to get funding and equipment from across the borders...
Experts like Joshi believe that disgruntled Islamist extremists in India are now a part of the global jihad - "united by the Internet and cutting across class lines." Says Raman: "Over the last few years, [Indian Islamist terrorists] have expanded the ambit of their grievances from purely domestic issues to global issues like the U.S.-led war in Iraq. They are a part of the pan-Islamic agenda." Last year, two brothers, Indian Muslim doctors from Bangalore, were implicated in the abortive Glasgow attacks...
Alpha Omega’s problems came to a head in December, when its owner, Raman Handa suddenly left for his home country of India, leaving considerable debts in his wake...
...Sujit M. Raman ’00, who chaired the EC in 1997, cites complaints over people ripping down signs or going $10 over budget as representative of a “general kind of self-importance...
...sophisticated scientific analysis has raised questions about the authenticity of three paintings attributed to Jackson Pollock, Harvard researchers reported this week. But the canvasses are still slated to go up for exhibition at Boston College this fall. Using scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and a slew of other state-of-the-art techniques, scholars at the Harvard University Art Museums found materials in the paintings that were not available until years after Pollock died. The analysis revealed that one of the three paintings includes a brown pigment that was not created until the early 1980s and not available...