This book is an attempt to analyse the political, security and terrorism trends in South Asia and propose prognostications in the short term. It is third in the series of such trend analysis on the region based on the building blocks of reviews in 2006 and 2007 and has the backing of legacy. Each chapter of the book covers the countries of the region including China arranged in alphabetical order with India in the end with its many segments, such as terrorism law and order, Naxalism, Kashmir and North East separately. The trends are based on a prognosis of scenarios based on trajectory of...

This book is dedicated to the Mumbaikars, whose voices of protests have shaken the conscience of the power elites in New Delhi. We hope and pray that they display a similar resolve as the citizen of Mumbai for a terror free Mumbai and India. Multiple terror attacks struck Mumbai, India s financial capital on the night of 26 November. A shocked nation was paralysed by a series of simultaneous assaults in South Mumbai, traditional hub of the metropolis at a time when revellers were out on the streets and the common man was preparing to go to bed. Many realized that Mumbai had been struck only...