A day-long event on the issue of radicalisation with a focus on blasts in Sri Lanka and its implications in India was organized at the Foundation’s premises. The theme of the discussions was that the rise of radicalisation and the resultant terrorist attacks had become a cause of concern the world over.

The recent series of bomb blasts in Sri Lanka had not only impacted that country but also had implications in the neighborhood including India. The attacks had been linked to National Thowheeth Jama’ath, a Sri Lanka based radical terrorist group believed to be having links with Islamic State (IS) and Tamil Nadu’s Thowheed Jamath. It was further believed that the radicalisation in Sri Lanka was linked to developments in Kerala and Kashmir. It was also learnt that youth from Sri Lanka and Kerala, under the influence of IS, had travelled to Kashmir to cross the Indian border. Sri Lankan authorities had confirmed that. Given those complex interrelationships, the terrorist attacks needed to be understood from theological and ideological perspectives giving rise to radicalisation. The discussions brought out the threat and dwelt on the need to devise ways and means to deny space for the growth of radicalisation.