NATION UNDER SIEGE

Repeated terror attacks, from city bombings to 26/11 and Maoist violence, exposed intelligence failures, weak coordination and homegrown radicalisation, forcing India to confront the limits of security amid rising ambition

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The period saw India endure what can only be described as a prolonged season of terror.

It was not a single war with a single enemy, but a grinding, multi-front assault that struck cities, markets, trains, hotels and forests with ruthless regularity. It tested the resilience of the Indian state and exposed the limits of its security imagination.