Anand Giridharadas in International Herald Tribune:
VERLA, India: Anand Sivakumaran saw Mumbai’s security loopholes. He noticed hotels that checked passports upon check-in, but not bags. He noticed police officers at thronging train stations armed with bamboo sticks, but not guns. He saw soft spots for terrorists. And he did what many upright, affluent citizens of Mumbai do in such instances.
Nothing.
Well, not nothing. He may not have alerted anyone to it, but he used it as material. As a screenwriter in Bollywood, with movies like “Kalyug” and “Nazar” to his name, Sivakumaran, 37, tucked the loopholes into the plot line of his latest film to make it seem more believable.
Indians at all levels are asking questions after the terror attacks in Mumbai last week. But Sivakumaran, like many in the country’s educated elite, is also turning the interrogation lamp on himself, asking: Was this our fault?
