2008 Mumbai terror attacks

When enough is enough

Life in the teeming city is blighted by fear and anxiety. Even the latest Hindi blockbusters are playing to near-empty cinemas

No head Turner?

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Mumbai massacre

India has suffered what many are calling its 9/11. Here one of the country's leading journalists introduces our nine-page analysis of the attacks, their aftermath and their implications for Britain and the world. We are hurt and angry, writes Soumya Bhattacharya, but even in our darkest hour we remain defiant. Plus read Richard Watson on how radicalised young men from over here continue to export terror

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The India that is not and never was

These attacks were on a different scale - more open, more organised, more direct. But there are many other internal pressures that weigh just as heavily on India's future

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Open your eyes, Dave

In his haste to embrace the new pro-western government of Pakistan, the British Foreign Secretary has ignored reality

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Becoming a pariah state

Even if none of the Mumbai attackers turns out to be British, radicalised young men from over here continue to export terror abroad.

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India under siege

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Mumbai: the soft city

At ground level Mumbai is a jumble of Manchester Gothic, with palm trees, pleasing 1960s modernism, labyrinthine shanty towns