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November 27, 2008

Terror Strikes in Mumbai

Jyoti Thottam in Time:

Mumbai_sniper_1127 As the debate over terror continues, various parties have been trading blame. The BJP has accused the Congress of cooking up charges against the arrested Hindu right-wingers, while the Congress has been accusing the BJP of playing a double-game of pointing fingers at the Congress while lending a hand to Hindu-fundamentalist terrorists. Mumbai has been a focus of the tension between the parties, as several of the so-called "Hindu terror" arrests have taken place in or near the city. Perhaps the size and scale of this most recent attack will force the country's political leaders to finally push through a long-shelved proposal to co-ordinate intelligence on terror incidents between the states and prevent a repeat of Wednesday's bloody spectacle.

More here.

Posted by Abbas Raza at 06:27 PM | Permalink

Comments

BLOOD ENEMY

The enemy of my enemy
is my friend. The friend
of my enemy is my enemy.

The friend of my friend is
my friend (unless that
friend is a friend of the
friend of my enemy). The

feud of my family is
a breach in the friendship
of my blood. My blood is

my enemy? Is this the edge
of my world? How canine
is the tooth of my despair?
Where is a pulse for peace?

Edward Mycue
p.s. pulses are often hidden eva wald leveton instructs. you have to keep feeling around. gently. and then feel again. don't she says give up on the double p!

Posted by: Edward Mycue | Nov 28, 2008 2:03:16 AM

TRIAD:THE CHILDREN OF OURSELVES

1.BATTLE REPORT THE INVALIDATED PERSON
is every
who doesn’t
who won’t who tries
really who is
told
even is courageous
but
soever
doesn’t feel
globally survive-able
& so accepts
& calls
that peace or victory
or realism
and so is a gelded person
man or woman and is doomed
everyone has hands.

2. AFTER TIME IS RIPE IT IS BANISHED

Root did not eat down.

Now sit, judge.
Now the sky begins to split open.
Other than this is not now.
I do not know other than this.
Other: there where we are not.
Now, here is.

Nuclear swords, dialectic knots hang over candidates for Alexander’s shoes,
stare-into futures for accidents from yesterday’s tapestry.

Rot eats down, seasons scatter.
And we read in them, fraying.

Black mirrors, white minutes manure to loam.
Meat is absurd.
Of is from’s motive; what is why’s dance.

Ideas, nuclear ripe, coral mouthed, are blind windows.

Now sit in judgment on the past and out of that dark doorway
remember now is not elsewhere, we are not there
and do not know an elsewhere.

Now here is.
Other: there where we are not.
I do not know other than this.
Other than this is not now.
Now the sky begins to split open.
Now sit, judge.

3.REOPEN THE CLOSED NOSEGAY
OF PINKS AND BUTTERCUPS

Wall greens, floor blues, ceiling whites:
how we love we lead our wise lives/wires
that braid, foster, build, promote a mother-
board of virtues, pulsing values: meanings
that are jade pebbles, simple ways, golem
cages where slowly daylight unnecessarily
possible reddens nighttime where memories
are love, trails, erosion, striptease, journey.

We went everywhere together and ate ice
cream because reality is not piled objects
in space: that is just a refusal to move on.
Even oxygen with no syllables for misery
becomes guilty of a uniform. So, reopen
the closed nosegay of pinks and buttercups.

Edward Mycue

Posted by: Edward Mycue | Nov 28, 2008 2:20:16 AM

This is horrible. The whole thing. Ghastly.

Posted by: Manas Shaikh | Nov 28, 2008 2:20:47 AM

Hoped this link to upcoming events planned to raise consciousness for peace and non-violence might be a balm--a place to be together in our sadness and horror over events in Mumbai and to assert our desire for an end to violence and war. For those of us in NYC, a march, City Hall press conference and music and dance concert is planned for December 7th.
http://www.worldmarchusa.net/World_March_USA/Welcome.html

Posted by: Frances Madeson | Nov 28, 2008 5:09:36 PM

This article touches upon other groups, home grown Indian who would have a clearer motive for the attacks in Bombay this week. There is an orgy of whodunnit discussions on the media--which incessantly seem to have found a culprit in Pakistan but not a motive. Yet I haven't heard anyone even begin to consider any other options such as maosists, naxhalites--Bombay mafias or rogue elements of the indian security services or military--with links to the BJP 16 or 17 of whom were implicated and jailed for the train bombings of the Samjota express between Pakistan and India two years ago and whose case was just about to come up in court and they were being pursued relentlessly by the anti-terrorism commmissioner Hermant Karkare and also the Police commissioner both of whom refused to bend to any political pressure to let this case go. These two men were killed in this week's attacks in Bombay. In each and every terrorist attack in India in the last decade or more the finger is always pointed at Pakistan and then it turns out to be a home grown violent group within India.

Posted by: maniza | Nov 30, 2008 2:27:35 PM

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