Meanwhile, read Brahma Chellaney's piece in the Daily Beast on the Mumbai terror attacks. Chellaney is a respected professor of strategic studies at the privately funded Center for Policy Research in New Delhi.
It is not a mere coincidence that Mumbai, India's commercial hub, has repeatedly been struck by terrorists since 1993. Mumbai has become the favored target because the terrorist aim is to undermine India's booming economy and its status as a rising power by rattling foreign investors and driving away tourists.