Here is a brief diary by Kiran Nagarkar on the attack suffered by Mumbai in 2008. To download the whole document, click on the link at the end of the next few introductory lines.

60 HOURS OF TERROR: A DIARY

by Kiran Nagarkar

Wednesday, 25th November. Fourth day at Tübingen. The University seems to think that I’m fit material for the Poetikdozentur (professorship of poetics). I get the feeling that I’m here not as a novelist, but as an expert on extremism and terrorism from Interpol. This afternoon I have a workshop with Christoph Peters and Dr. Anil Bhatti with students who will grill us on these subjects. Moral of the story: Don’t write a book called God’s Little Soldier.
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