The Delhi Blast and the General’s Shadow A Nation’s Call to Resolve

Maj Gen Sanjeev Dogra (Retd)

Sanjeev Dogra (@sanjeev1dogra)

The first sound was a thunderclap that tore through the familiar hum of Delhi. A roar of metal, dust, and shattered lives near the ancient walls of the Red Fort. The silence that followed on November 10th was more profound than any siren; it was a collective gasp, a prelude to a complex geopolitical reckoning. The attack, which claimed 13 lives and scarred many more, was not a random act of violence. It was the violent, desperate culmination of two parallel narratives racing towards a fatal intersection.

One was being written in the clandestine safe houses of a terror network spanning from the valleys of Kashmir to the suburbs of Haryana. The other was being debated in the shadowy corridors of power in Islamabad, where a propos