Thursday, March 15, 2007

Homegrown terrorists

A good article from Sulekha on the changing tactics of terrorism: Terror 'outsourced' in India.

Terrorist groups are relying more on native Indians to carry out terrorist attacks using crudely assembled bombs, whereas previous attacks were carried out by Afghan mercenaries or Pakistanis who used sophisticated weaponry.

Below is a map of terrorism in India that I created:


terrorism tagged map by user - Tagzania

I invite readers to make this map more complete by registering with Tagzania and tagging locations of terrorist attacks with "terrorism" and "India." I also request that readers identify source URLs for your information as documentation under Resources.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Two worthwhile essays to read

Indians are most unpatriotic people
Kashmiri pandit warns against a second partition of India

The dreaded "H-word"
"Anish Shah analyses the psychology behind the widespread tendency of many Hindu-inspired spiritual or yoga groups to vehemently deny any connections with Hinduism," in this editorial from Hindu Voice UK.