2008 Mumbai attacks
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Dhurandhar Review
Omar Ali gives Dhurandhar four stars out of five, reading it as an Inglorious Basterds-style revenge fantasy rather than history, praising Akshaye Khanna’s performance and the music, and noting that…
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Dhurandhar showcases Bollywood’s New Obsession: The Sexy Pakistani Villain
X.T.M calls Dhurandhar the best mass-market Bollywood film since Animal and argues it reflects Bollywood’s new formula of fetishising Pakistan as the sexy villain, familiar enough to feel intimate and…
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Trump Finds Hafiz Saeed..
The author argues that Pakistan’s latest arrest of Hafiz Saeed on terror-financing charges is no ‘finding’ and may not last, noting the charges are unrelated to the Mumbai attacks and…
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Pakistani potluck with a dash of politics
After a tense Pakistani potluck over 26/11 and Indian views of Pakistan, the author says he prefers diplomacy to ideology, and argues South Asia should focus on lifting its billion-plus…
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Moshe and his (new) Imma
On the re-opening of Mumbai’s Chabad House six years after 26/11, the poster admires the sincerity but fears a repeat given weak safety preparations and the India-Pakistan hostility, and reflects…
