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Vijay Narayanan on January 7th, 2009

The Hindu’s website has a dossier of evidence on the Mumbai terror attacks as put together by the investigating agencies. I guess this is the same dossier that has been handed over to Pakistan, which the latter rubbished even before reading. One thing is clear from a preliminary reading of the dossier. It is that the [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on December 8th, 2008

I’m surprised that the headline on CNN-IBN’s website reads “Cong., BJP win and lose, no verdict for 2009“. Is IBN carrying a brief for the BJP? One could argue that the Congress won Mizoram, Delhi and Rajasthan, while the BJP held on to Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. But that doesn’t give the whole picture. Firstly, [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on November 27th, 2008

The most predictable of all the reactions to the standoff in Mumbai, now into its third, and seemingly final day now is the “Let’s go get those responsible for this” refrain. This is an approach that has neither worked in the past nor has a chance of working in the future. Counter-terrorism studies in the [...]

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