Most other attacks in India were either far away (North-East) or affected lower-middle class or poor people (Malegaon). This one impacted the yuppies because it hit targets that are visual icons of what urban success is about. It hit one of the holy sites of India’s consumerist religion – The Taj.
Ironically, even the attackers were urban, unlike the backward, tribal, uneducated image of terrorists we have in our mind when we hear ‘terror attack in India’. By hitting these nerve centres of Urban India, the attackers’ message also hit home – literally, into your living room and mine.
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