Reliving Mumbai's 9/11
Tunku Varadarajan is opinions editor at Forbes, a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and a professor at NYU’s Stern Business School. Starting next week, he will be a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast.
A chilling HBO documentary revisits the three days of trauma Mumbai endured last year-the bloodshed that left 170 dead, the quiet voices of the seemingly unstoppable terrorists. Tunku Varadarajan looks back on the attacks.
Holbrooke's Diplomatic Score
Well known Indian journalist M.J. Akbar is the editor of Covert, a fortnightly magazine of current affairs, a blogger and the author of many books, most recently Blood Brothers.
It looks as if US special envoy Richard Holbrooke has already gotten tough on Pakistan to good effect. By M.J. Akbar.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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