30 October 2006

National

'And His Life Should Become Extinct'

The Very Strange Story of the Attack on the Indian Parliament





We know this much: On December 13, 2001, the Indian Parliament was in its winter session. (The NDA government was under attack for yet another corruption scandal.) At 11.30 in the morning, five armed men in a white Ambassador car fitted out with an Improvised Explosive Device drove through the gates of Parliament House. When they were challenged,...