December , 2008
This Too Shall Not Pass
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The men behind the Mumbai carnage have reaped our blood, our tears, our anger. They have filled every Indian with rage as we watched our most innocent and our most brave gunned down and burnt. Now it's time to make sure we think about our response and think it through. And revenge must be a dish served cold. Chilling, preferably. Â After 9/11, remember, the U.S. spent a month planning its response. The first strikes on Kabul came October 7, 2001. Given the state of preparedness we have shown before the Mumbai strike, it seems likely that we need some time to decide what we do next too. It also seems like something our politicians want- the easiest way to turn the nation's rage away from them, would be to give them something else, tangible, to hate. Like the country next door. Â But we have....
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Suhasini Haidar is the Deputy Foreign Editor and Prime-Time anchor for CNN-IBN, regularly anchoring its award-winning show India@9. She entered the world of journalism in 1994 with an internship at the CNN’s United Nations Bureau in New York. She worked with the CNN in New Delhi after that, as a producer and then as a correspondent until she moved to CNN-IBN in 2005. Suhasini regularly covers the sub-continent, frequently reporting from Pakistan. She has also traveled with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to cover his official visits to the US, France, Russia, NAM, SAARC and CHOGM and is the only journalist to have interviewed Singh, Mrs. Gursharan Kaur, and their daughters. Suhasini's also been in the field covering elections in Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir for CNN-IBN. She received her Bachelor's degree at Delhi University's Lady Shri Ram College and her Master's at Boston University's College of Communication. When not at work Suhasini turns off the TV and loves to read, swim and walk. When she is lucky, her two daughters, dogs and husband join in.
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