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A blog from an angry Indian India is no stranger to terrorism . When I was born , Kolkata was in the grip of Naxalite terror. When I was a teenager , Khalistani groups terrorized us. When I was in university , the LTTE assansinated Rajiv Gandhi. Over the last two decades, we have been constantly at the brunt of various Islamist groups, both home-grown and foreign . However, the attacks in Mumbai suggest a totally different level of threat to national security . First , the terrorists seem to be able to strike simultaneously and with impunity at some of our most iconic social institutions – the Taj hotel, CST station and so on. Second , the terrorists clearly knew what they were doing and who they were targeting. This is no bomb-and-run job. They knew their way around and inside the two hotels, they knew where to find the Jewish rabbi, they knew about tourist-friendly Café Leopold and possibly they deliberately killed the head of Mumbai's anti-terror unit. Third, and most i...

With a traumatized nation and a paralyzed government, a core group of secular ideologues and Hindu nationalists are executing a 'soft coup' in New Delhi to bring to power hawks who want to pursue America's agenda of grooming India as a regional policeman, sort out Pakistan and confront China. India will self-destroy in the process. India's military and intelligence has been penetrated. The man who uncovered the plot, Hemant Karkare, the antiterrorism chief of Mumbai police, was the first target of the mysterious terrorists. Patriotic Indians need to wake up and save their country. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan —Preliminary signs emerging from India's power center, New Delhi, paint a picture of an unstable situation. Security is already compromised. But a bigger story is taking place in New Delhi, not Mumbai . There are disturbing signs that India, a nuclear-armed nation of a billion people, is witnessing a ' soft coup' attempt involving secular rightwing ideologues...