I’m still figuring out how to interpret and digest the horror that has been unfolding in Mumbai, India over the last 48 hours.

On Twitter, where the news and personal stories of Mumbai are coming fast, someone commented that watching this unfold was like watching a dark reality show. Already people are calling this India’s 9-11-01, discounting the specific historical and political contexts. Pero yet it reminds me of 9-11-01 as I lived. The constant playing and replaying of horrific images and the numbing effect it produces while creeping deep into our psyches. My own discomfort with the word “terrorism” as I reflect on people I know who have been given that label and how easy, especially now, it is to call something/someone a “terrorist” and dismiss not just the horror they cause (because as much as I am not a pacifist, death on any mass level is horrible), but also where the root is.

Wikipedia already has a constantly updated entry on the attacks.

Via / Kabob Fest, Sepia Mutiny