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Column : We always overcome

Michael Walton
Posted: Thursday, Dec 04, 2008 at 0403 hrs IST
Updated: Thursday, Dec 04, 2008 at 0403 hrs IST

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: 2008: Heavily-armed terrorists hit multiple targets in Mumbai—the main train station, world-famous five-star hotels popular with foreigners, an upmarket restaurant, a Jewish centre—killing about 200 people in a 62-hour operation.

October 30, 2008: Serial bomb blasts in multiple cities in Assam left at least 61 people dead more than 300 injured.

September 13, 2008: Five bomb blasts in New Delhi's popular shopping centers left 21 people dead and more than 100 injured.

July 26, 2008: Serial blasts in Ahmedabad killed 45 people and injured more than 150.

May 13, 2008: A series of six explosions in Jaipur killed 63 people and injured more than 150.

August 25, 2007: Forty-two people killed and 50 injured in twin explosions at a crowded park and a popular eatery in Hyderabad.

May 18, 2007: A bombing during Friday prayers at Mecca Masjid, Hyderabad, killed 13 people.

September 8, 2006: 37 people were killed and 125 were injured in a series of bomb blasts in the vicinity of a mosque in Malegaon, Maharashtra.

July 11, 2006: Seven bomb blasts occurred at various places on the Mumbai suburban railway, killing 200.

The author is at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Institute of Social & Economic Change, and the Centre for Policy Research...

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