Violence runs through this 'stable' India, built on poverty and injustice

Violence runs through this 'stable' India, built on poverty and injustice

By Pankaj Mishra

The Guardian,

Thursday August 7 2008

The passive consumer of this image, already puzzled by recurring reports of explosions in Indian cities, may be startled to learn from the National Counterterrorism Centre (NCTC) in Washington that the death toll from terrorist attacks in India between January 2004 and March 2007 was 3,674, second only to that in Iraq. (In the same period, 1,000 died as a result of such attacks in Pakistan, the "most dangerous place on earth" according to the Economist, Newsweek and other vendors of geopolitical insight.)

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