26/11

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Etymology

From 26 November written in the dd/MM date format used in India.

Proper noun

26/11

(metonymic) The 2008 Mumbai attacks.
- [2008 December 8, Malini Bhupta, Aditi Pai, Saurabh Shukla, Bhavna Vij-Aurora, “New terror strategy”, in India Today‎^[1], via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 1:
  Just as 9/11 entered the dictionary of terror, so too will 26/11, the day which will go down as Mumbai's darkest hour, when terrorists laid siege to the city's roads, airports, railway station, hospitals and two of its best known luxury hotels, leaving a trail of death and destruction and taking hostages.]
- 2010 August 6, Lalit K. Jha, “US Investigating Possible ISI Role in Mumbai Attack”, in India-West‎^[2], volume 35, number 37, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page A14:
  The revelation about ISI’s role in 26/11 had not come from the interrogation of Pakistani-American LeT operative David Headley, but through India’s own investigation which had been shared with the U.S. officials.
- 2012 December 26, Shiva IYER <om.sriguru@gmail.com>, “Re: Paak terrorists kill our soldier while we are hosting their cricket team..”, in rec.sport.cricket‎^[3] (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 9 March 2026:
  Ps talk to the family of 26/11 victims and ask them what does this current cricket series mean to them.
- 2015 November 15, Amit Roy, Samyabrata Ray Goswami, “For Mumbai, same sounds and sights”, in The Telegraph (India)‎^[4], via EBSCOhost, →OCLC, page 4:
  Aashish Contractor, a doctor and a 26/11 survivor, counts himself lucky.
- 2016 August, Rhys Machold, “Learning from Israel? ‘26/11’ and the anti-politics of urban security governance”, in Security Dialogue, volume 47, number 4, Sage Publications, →DOI, →ISSN, page 277:
  [D]espite recurring media representations of terrorist attacks like ‘26/11’ as self-evident events with supposedly predetermined consequences, there is a need to de-familiarize the policy ‘responses’ to them and thereby reclaim their political contingency.
- 2018 December 7, “26/11 Anniversary: U.S. Announces $5 Mn Bounty”, in News India Times‎^[5], volume 49, number 49, sourced from IANS, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 7:
  [Title:] 26/11 Anniversary: U.S. Announces $5 Mn Bounty
- 2025 October, Jamia Millia Islamia, “Filmic construction of regional Islamophobia: Rendering Kashmiri Muslims in Hindi cinema”, in Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 18, number 2, Intellect Limited, →DOI, →ISSN, page 307:
  The term ‘Islamophobia’ has been used extensively since the release of the Runnymede report (Holloway 2016) in 1997. Its usage increased even more after the 9/11 and 26/11 tragedies in the United States and India, respectively (Awan 2010; Elbih 2018; Iqbal 2020; Kumar 2016; Masood 2023).