The city of Mumbai was taken at ransom by bunch of terrorists on November 26, 2008. They took scores of innocent lives by firing indiscriminately at Chatrapathi Shivaji Terminus (CST or VT), Metro cinema, Cama hospital and taking people hostage at the Oberoi, the Taj and Nariman house (They say for any Islamic terrorist killing a Jewish is a sure way to heaven – what a crap) .
Till I publish this blog, the gun battles were on at Taj and Nariman house.
The terrorists took some well known 5 star hotels killing many unarmed innocent people and took many people hostage there. Most of front office staff of Taj has been killed by these terrorists and many of foreign nationals were also been targeted.
Me and my wife (Amitha) were worried for our close friend Sunayana as she works with JW Marriot. Early morning around 2.00 am on 27th, news channels reported of possible attack on Marriot and nearby Ramada. We tried to call her, on cell phone and landline. As expected the lines were jammed. Scrapped thru orkut, and till late next day we had no response. Finally around 4 in the evening, we were relieved to have a scrap from Sunayana, who was stuck in Marriot but was safe. We both could speak to her today and got an idea of how serious was the situation out there. Most of South Mumbai was either closed or was under curfew. Almost all of front office staff at Taj was shot dead. They were also soft on particular community people and were only asking for British and US passport holders (Often our leaders say terrorism has no religion, they need to think again).
Things have been done at a very systematic way with highly professional accuracy and coordination. They were highly trained and have complete idea of city’s landscape and the hotel layout where they took number of people hostage. The way terrorists have targeted top cops and encounter specialists, it seems there was a clear help from local underworld (May be D company and its vendetta on Vijay Salaskar and Hemant Karkare).
I share some of horrific pictures of Mumbai after the attack.
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- Face of enemy (Is he a man who attacks innocents ?)
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- CST after the attacks.
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- CST after attack
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- Car bomb blast near Santa cruz area
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- Not even kids spared
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- Casualties in hospital
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- Mumbai’s heritage Taj, attacked
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- Taj after attack
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- Burning Taj hotel
The so called concept of terrorism, where unarmed innocent people are targets, is cowardly and must be dealt with harsh punishable measures. These bunch of B*******, who really do not have guts to take on our army, come and either place bombs or fire bullets and run away, should be killed in public (most of them were killed like dogs in Mumbai). One who tries to attack Indians should be taught a lesson of life not to commit such mistake again.
Our heart goes with people whose closed ones are stuck up in stalemate or missing. Our deep condolences to one who have lost their lives and we salute those brave soldiers who laid their lives to protect us.
Some channels like TIMES NOW, NDTV and CNN-IBN were sensitive in covering the entire events. But there were some channels like 9X to whom the death of ATS chief was dramatic event. The narration was so hopeless and insensitive, we really felt as some idiot was on air and talking some bullsh** (One news reader from 9X used ‘over there’ almost 50 times in 10 min). I think beyond thinking of TRPs they also need to think that they are Indians first.
Finally, we tend to forget the things soon, and as usual politicians start taking advantage and credit of the situation and play some vote bank politics.
May be next time when a software company is taken hostage or entire airport…
May be they blow up the train or some busy mall on a weekend. And again politicians start blaming some other country to hide their inability to protect us….
The real world.. 