The Mumbai blasts seem to be a reaction to the 'totality of events' in Ayodhya and Mumbai in December 1992 and January 1993.' Justice BN Srikrishna report.


Justice Srikrishna is spot on: If there were no riots in Mumbai in 1992-1993, there would have been no serial blasts. Like if there was no Godhra train burning there would have been no 2002 Gujarat riots, or if Indira Gandhi was not assassinated, there would have been no anti-Sikh pogrom in 1984. Or we could argue that if the Babri masjid was not demolished, the post-Babri riots would not have occurred; if Indira Gandhi hadn't ordered the army to storm the Golden Temple, Sikh militancy would have been contained; if the VHP hadn't undertaken a Kar-Seva in Ayodhya, no train would have been targeted. 


Read Rajdeep Sardesai's column for the Hindustan Times.