February , 2009
How did Mutalik and the LeT crack our code?
(Terrorism strategy in the reality TV age.) Mutalik was a NOBODY before his goons launched a very strategic attack. After years of goofing around in the wilderness, he suddenly realized that India only takes notice if you hit her in her soft underbelly. The upper middle classes and their icons are the only relevant target for a terrorist like Kasab or a gender terrorist like Mutalik. Their strategy is the same. It says very clearly; if you want media attention and 'national' attention, you need to wage a symbolic war against the icons of the upper classes in India. Only then will you become an instant national icon...and now, an international icon. Mutalik does not care about the upper middle class and the pub going Indian. He is willing to beat them up to prove he does not care. He is concerned with a....





























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