Mumbai was not our 9/11

...But November isn't September, 2008 isn't 2001, Pakistan isn't Afghanistan and India isn't America. So perhaps we should reclaim our tragedy and pick through the debris with our own brains and our own broken hearts so that we can arrive at our own conclusions Full Story »

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by Zachary Pickens - Dec. 13, 2008

Arundhati Roy has properly deconstructed a media talking point with this piece. First, she gives us the reasons why the mediocre comparison of the Mumbai attacks to 9/11 are invalid. Then she gives us the resources to look elsewhere.

Arundhati Roy is asking us to look at some of the larger problems in India, a country that has seen similar terrorist attacks from multiple, disconnected sources over just the past few months. Any Indian scholar will tell you that India's experience with terrorism has been drastically different than that of the West.

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