191 Chapter 7 The gaze of us and Indian media on terror in mumbai: a comparative analysis 1 Sudeshna Roy and Susan Dente Ross To contribute to growing knowledge of how journalists fail to contrib- ute to global reconciliation and peace and move outside the dominant scholarly focus on Western media, this chapter critically analyses and compares editorial commentary about the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, in leading newspapers in India and the United States. Examining how media of a dominant Western and a dominant non-Western nation represent terror events, this chapter explores distinctions in the embedded ideology of terrorism and the (mis)align- ment of the two nations’ media commentary with the tenets of war or peace journalism. Since the terror event occurs outside the geographic and ideological West, a concept utilising a binary of the ‘West and the Rest’ to emphasise European uniqueness and non-Western inferiority, this chapter illuminates the representation of terror events from two opposing ends of this constructed binary. Our fndings suggest that media in both India and the US perpetuate global ideological discourses around terror that reify social identities, promote nationalistic support for government actions, and call up religious and political divisions between India and Pakistan as a primary cause for the terror attacks. Te newspapers difer, however, in their proposed solutions to terrorism and their proximity to the 1 A diferent version of two short sections from the Background and Method section in this chapter appear in the Sudeshna Roy and Susan Ross co-authored article titled ‘Te circle of terror: strategic localizations of global media terror meta-discourses in the US, India and Scotland’ in Media, War & Confict, 4(3).