“Red Fort blast and the rise of white-collar terrorism: Time to confront Pakistan and its jihadi foot soldiers in Bharat”, First Post, November 12, 2025
“The car explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort has once again shattered the illusion that terrorism in Bharat is a closed chapter. For over a decade, security agencies had successfully prevented major attacks outside Jammu & Kashmir, but this deadly blast is a grim reminder that terrorism — especially the one rooted in political Islam — remains a live, mutating threat.
Whether the Red Fort blast was a carefully planned act or the one committed out of panic after the security and intel agencies busted the terror module that had been working for over two years to create large-scale mayhem and violence across the country, what’s undeniable is that Islamist terrorism remains a major threat. More worryingly, the threat for Bharat remains as much from Pakistan as from those radicalised ones within the country who get swayed by the idea of Caliphatism and political Islam.
As the Delhi blast episode shows, the adversary is no longer a typical jihadi, projected in the Left-‘liberal’ narrative as a poor, illiterate victim of majoritarian, capitalist order: He is now an educated person with a high-flying job. The white-collar radicalism, however, is not exactly a new phenomenon. One often finds engineers getting involved with such Islamist projects, but what has startled many this time is that doctors too have joined the jihad bandwagon. A profession that is aimed at protecting lives is now busy making plans to kill people…..”
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