A Spanish approach won’t work

Amitav Ghosh writes an op-ed in New York Times, continuing the western liberal media (mainly BBC/NYT) motif of equating India and Pakistan as equal sufferers of terrorism:
The choice of targets in Mumbai clearly owes something to the September bombing of the Islamabad Marriott, another high-profile site sure to include foreign casualties. Here already there is [...]

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Mr Mishra, please STFU

I have ranted before about Pankaj Mishra’s intellectual dishonesty, but his latest piece in the New York Times in the aftermath of the Mumbai terror attacks, can only be described as the work of lunatic who has lost all sense of perspectives.
Indeed, the outrage in Mumbai is the latest and clearest sign that the price [...]

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Anger

For the last two days, since the news of the terror attacks on Mumbai (which is still not over as I write), I have been through a myriad range of emotions – deep sadness, sorrow for the victims, horror at the widespread carnage, helplessness, depression……and anger. Anger that such an audacious attack could happen in [...]

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Terrorists strike in Mumbai……

Terrible, depressing news from Mumbai early in the morning. Terrorist attacks the city, again.
But this is different from the earlier bomb attacks – this was armed men with guns and grenades attacking innocent people in various parts of south Mumbai.
Video footages on the news channels this morning were surreal, it was like a war zone [...]

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Lack of privacy, Breach Candy etc.

The lack of privacy and personal space in India (even much of Asia) is well known and has been extesnively ranted on. Considering the population density, it is perhaps understandable to some extent.
Still,  our recent experience at Mumbai’s Breach Candy hospital regarding the privacy of patients,  or accurately, the blatant lack of it, was a [...]

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Mumbai moments….

While I try to untangle the mess my work is in from three weeks of absence, here are some photos from Mumbai taken during the trip (click for full image).
(Previous nostalgia about Mumbai here)
A microcosm of Mumbai ? High-rises next to old buildings, monsoon rains, the sea……the choked traffic:

A man with a Mission (Keep the [...]

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Kolkata bound (yet again) and Mumbai musings

This hasn’t happened in the last decade: touching home base twice within an year, far less the same calendar year. It wasn’t planned, but so much in life isn’t.
So there it is……waiting in Singapore to catch the evening flight to Kolkata. Much business to be taken care of in Kolkata, involving lots of loitering around [...]

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