Kasab: The Face of 26/11

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Kasab: The Face of 26/11
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AuthorRommel Rodrigues
CountryIndia
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
Crime
PublisherPenguin Books
Publication date
2010
Media typePrint (paperback, hardback)
Pages288
ISBN9780143415473

Kasab: The Face of 26/11 is an Indian non-fiction crime novel written by journalist and author Rommel Rodrigues, first published by Penguin Books India in December 2010.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The book narrates an exhaustive and in-depth account of events that culminated in the horrific and heinous 2008 Mumbai attacks that shook the entire world. The savage terror attacks drew global condemnation and were dubbed by several world leaders including Hillary Clinton as 'India's 9/11', a reference to the 2001 September 11 attacks in the United States.[9][10]

The author Rommel Rodrigues was also the Writer and Associate Director of Ram Gopal Varma's film The Attacks of 26/11 which was released in 2013 to very positive reviews.[11][12][13]

Overview[edit]

On 26 November 2008 ten heavily armed terrorists entered Mumbai. They headed for the city’s iconic landmarks and the mayhem they unleashed lasted nearly 60 hours. The audacious terror attacks jolted Mumbai like never before. Even as they mourned; the residents of Maximum City demanded answers. But the information they got in return — accounts of the investigation; government rhetoric; newspaper reports; television features; books and even a film released then was sketchy at best. Meanwhile; the courts continued with their prosecution of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab; the lone surviving 26/11 gunman. The broad picture available to the public is of the Pakistan-based terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and its ringleaders such as Hafiz Muhammad Saeed and Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi training; arming and dispatching ten young men in a boat to attack India’s commercial capital. All we have been told about Kasab is that he was just another recruit brainwashed into carrying out the plot against Mumbai. Kasab: The Face of 26/11 breaks new ground by painstakingly piecing together Kasab’s terror trail. The narrative follows Kasab through the bylanes of Pakistani villages and cities as he made his way towards PoK; the dense forests where the terrorist-training camps are situated; the trains; buses and jeeps he boarded; the Indian vessel he and the others hijacked en route to Mumbai’s shores; Kasab’s capture and incarceration. Rommel Rodrigues’ path-breaking investigative journalism fleshes out for the first time the well thought-out planning and organization that lay behind the attacks of 26/11

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Ziya Us Salam (23 November 2012). "Between Covers - Rommel Rodrigues". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Pamela Raghunath (21 April 2011). "Special prosecutor praises book on surviving Mumbai attacks gunman". Gulf News. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Fernandez, Fiona (2 January 2011). "The Face of Terror Unveiled". Mid-Day. Archived from the original on 13 November 2012. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  4. ↑ Anit Mukherjee (5 February 2011). "The Terror Of Footnotes". Tehelka. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Ziya Us Salam (23 November 2012). "Between Covers". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
  6. ↑ Mohan Ramamoorthy (2 January 2011). "The Kasab story in three parts". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  7. ↑ The Afternoon (22 February 2011). "The Terror Tracker". Afternoon. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  8. ↑ Hemal Ashar (21 April 2011). "Kasab is no misguided youth but dreaded killer". Mid Day. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  9. ↑ Kumar Sen, Ashish (27 November 2008). "125-now-dead-indias-911". THE WASHINGTON TIMES. Retrieved 29 November 2008.
  10. ↑ SAUNDERS, DOUG (29 November 2008). "This is India's 9/11? Think again". Globe and Mail. Toronto. Retrieved 29 November 2008.
  11. ↑ Subhash K Jha (1 March 2013). "The Attacks of 26/11' a stunning wake-up call". Khaleej Times. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
  12. ↑ Miss Malini (5 March 2013). "Interview With the Man Who Wrote 'The Face of 26/11'". www.Missmalini.com. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  13. ↑ Showsha (1 March 2013). "Brilliant writing of Rommel Rodrigues". First Post. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
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