Mumbai has been targeted along its febrile nervous system. Quite sensibly, in my opinion, most of us do not care about who did it or why. We are back to ‘normal’ work ignoring the perpetrators with the contempt they deserve. We don’t need PhDs to present us with an analysis of the whys and wherefores. Much is obvious even to a non-expert like myself.

It is most likely the work of young out-of-work fanatically indoctrinated fascists of the Islamist variety.

They are certainly supported financially, morally, ideologically by forces outside India — forces rooted in Pakistan, Dubai, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia. Support may be official, formal and acknowledged from state agencies in these countries, or informal, unacknowledged, below the line and cloaked in official deniability, or from rogue elements within state agencies supported with winks and nods by governments or rogue elements beyond the control of governments or from individual and non-official ‘philanthropic’ supporters of terrorism indulging in fanatical and lunatic private enterprise on their own.

The physical work of planting bombs is probably outsourced to psychologically unstable young males (from neighbouring countries) who resemble Indians (who can look at a Pakistani or Bangladeshi and tell them apart from Indians?) or even to Indian nationals susceptible to psychoses based on grotesque beliefs or grievances, real or imaginary.

Destruction of mosques which are rechristened as disputed structures or inter-religious violence which is given voyeuristic coverage in the electronic media with ongoing and credible accusations of state connivance in these riots surely does not help and both are quite likely a motivator for recruits among otherwise unemployed, restless youth powered by high levels of macho testosterone and belief in absurd medieval doctrines that justify vicious violence against anonymous enemies.

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