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Article: Terror comes to India.(attack on Indian Parliament)
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- The Progressive
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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I returned to India for my brother's wedding, which was on December 11. When I landed in New Delhi, life seemed to be going on in the city's normal, chaotic way. Even security at the Indira Gandhi International Airport did not seem to be tighter than usual, though for many years it has been much more rigorous than in the United States.
Two days after the wedding, my family and I were sitting down for lunch at my parents' home when a cousin of mine rushed in and informed us that he had just seen television footage of the attack on the Indian Parliament. People in India, after decades of terrorism, have become so inured to such attacks that no one among us got up to ...