Just 11 days before the Calcutta inauguration ceremony of the 1996 cricket World Cup – being co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan – a bomb exploded on 31 January in Colombo.
A glance at the major acts of terror perpetrated by militants and rebels of all colours across Southasia in the decade from 1999 to 2008 can only induce horror. The
Another day, another Thursday. The Lounge Lizards, a certain trio, or Imran with his band, would sing for a blasé Dhaka crowd suffering from acute fatigue stemming from the chronic
Following millions of fellow Southasian citizens, this writer woke up early on the morning of 27 November to the horror of violence in Bombay. On television, I watched the images
On 26 November, as news channels in Pakistan began to flash breaking news of the attacks in Bombay, Pakistanis were, like Indians, instantly glued to their television sets. They stayed
The defining moment of the 26-29 November 2008 attacks on Bombay came the first night. We were a group of journalists standing at the Taj Mahal Hotel. We had rushed
The reaction of the mainstream media in India to the mayhem in Bombay was Pavlovian: if there were explosions and innocent victims, then it must be Islamist 'terrorism'
