India's precarious internal security

This book should be compulsory reading for every Indian politician and bureaucrat, not because they are unaware of India’s internal security challenges but to understand how India can benefit from the best law-and-order practices globally and the path-breaking steps other countries followed after major terror strikes.

Vappala Balachandran, a former Indian Police Service officer, skillfully wields facts, data and anecdotes to demonstrate that, despite the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks (known as 26/11 in popular parlance), the Kargil war and numerous low-intensity terror strikes and riots, Indian politicians and representatives of the intelligence, security and defence agencies have failed to restrain