Prateep V. Philip

Inspector General of Police, Tamil Nadu

Every citizen is a stakeholder in today's terror-scenario, just as the police have no time to relax or take lightly the threats that are just too many. We have been crusading with the "Friends of Police" concept (a platform for such concerned and involved citizen stake-holders). The FoP has however not caught the imagination of police leaderships countrywide as it should though ironically it is the only available international blueprint for community policing. More »

RAJDEEP SARDESAI

Editor-in-chief, IBN18

Something cracked inside all of us on the 26th of November 2008. We were grieving, we were horrifed, but we were all very, very angry. Rage that we have repeatedly been betrayed by a system that is meant to guarantee the physical security of every Indian. In the last few years, it has been apparent that no place is safe any longer...places of worship, markets, even hospitals, now hotels: the terrorist has struck with increasing audacity. Rich and poor, Hindu and Muslim, north Indian and south Indian, no one has been spared. With every attack, there is debate, there are platitudes, there is hand-wringing. More »

SANJOY NARAYAN

Editor-in-Chief, Hindustan Times

People forget. It is in our nature. Even epochal events tend to fade with the passing of time. Years later, the details get fuzzy, the sequences get mixed-up and re-imagining the horror does not evoke the same sharp feelings of grief and anger. We move on. That is human nature.
But moving on this time round isn’t going to be easy. The brutality of the Mumbai attacks has left us, above all, deeply vulnerable. It has exposed the rottenness in our system; our intelligence agencies, our police force, our political leaders and even our media. And that is why the appropriate response to this terror attack isn’t sadness or outrage – it’s simply to usher in intelligent reform. More »