Abstract
For an event that traumatised the nation and created a serious crisis of citizen loyalty to the Indian State, the November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai have not been put through a rigorous process of public accountability. Information available in the public domain has frequently been inconsistent and the official responses, often reflexive and formulaic, have evaded serious scrutiny because they have conformed to a predetermined template on terrorism. Though the pressures enforcing conformity have been acute, a number of independent analyses have emerged which point to the need for greater public engagement with the process of unravelling the truth behind the sixty hour siege of Mumbai. Dispassionate examination of all available evidence indicates that terrorism in the current millennium is a more complex phenomenon than ordinarily supposed, with a vastly variegated cast of actors.
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