This CBS story starts out by suggesting there is some knee-jerk finger-pointing at Pakistan going on. And it ends by saying the operation was beyond a level LeT was capable of, and someone clearly helped. Errr… who?

In the jungles of Jharkhand, Maoists pay tribute to the victims of 26/11 with a gun salute. Almost as deafening, reports the Times of India, is the silence of the Left on the participation of the US, Britain and Israel in the Mumbai attack probe.

There is, says Ramchandra Guha, a dangerous divide between India’s Muslims and the mainstream — and that lasting peace depends on how well, and how soon, that divide can be bridged.

A Boston.com staff writer reminisces about his time spent in the land of Mahatma Gandhi, and wonders at the violence wracking the land of the apostle of non-violence. He is not the only one wondering — the real wonder is how Gandhi’s teachings are expected to make a difference in a country that holds up the Mahatma for ritualized annual commemoration, but not for everyday emulation.

The Jerusalem Post points out that the last sizeable terrorist strike prior to 26/11 was 7/7 — the bombings in London, and that was over three years ago. Contrary to what appears on the surface, terrorism is losing ground worldwide, argues Larry Derfner.

National Review Online editorializes that this is a war for a far greater, and more dangerous, objective than a resolution in Kashmir — which is why this is not just India’s war, but the world’s.

Early, rough cut analysis of the election results coming in. On the day of the elections in New Delhi, mainstream papers there carried ads inserted by the BJP that said ‘Terror strikes at will… Congress soft on terror… vote BJP’.

Congress has carried New Delhi and taken Rajasthan, against all expectations — an early indication that people don’t take kindly to politicizing terror?

An interesting sidelight of the Mumbai terror attacks has been the way “crowdsourcing” played a part in the coverage — to such effect in fact that it has attracted major notice across the media world. A BBC podcast speaks to that subject.

Vir Sanghvi, editorializing in the Hindustan Times, says the manifest rage following 26/11 is aimless and, in the ultimate analysis, impotent.

“Non-state actors” is a phrase increasingly in currency to delink a nation from the terrorists who breed and thrive within its boundaries. Such thinking, argues Greg Sheridan in The Australian, is dangerous.