“There is a protest march organized by the Citizens of Mumbai on 3rd December 2008 at 6pm, in front of the Taj Mahal hotel. …” I knew I wanted to be there but was not sure whether I could really go or not. Factors like getting a go ahead for it..
The 26th is proving to be a deadly date India, especially for Maharashtra. From since I can recollect, the first disaster came in the form of the Bhuj earthquake in Gujarat on 26th January, 2001. The disaster killed more then 20k people (wiki) and injured..
I would like to put forth a new dimension to the sequence of events that have unfolded post the gruesome attack, the ruling party quickly understood the kind of outrage the citizens of India have shown towards the attack at got into action almost immedia..
Let us attack Pakistan and kill everybody there… I guess that is what most of us think as a solution for the recent attack on Mumbai (and India). But before that, let us do one more thing..
Its 11 months since I am abroad….20 years in India…..But in these 11 months - I heard 5 times the same thing…I felt the same tension, restlessness, scary feeling…..sadness, bothering, sympathy……amongst all the one feeling I felt strongly was,..
Today is yet another day that i have gone through all the coverages appeared in the media , each passing day makes me feel like a patient in a trauma recovery unit, each day I try to wipe out the memories of the traumatic incident but it just keeps coming..
In wake of recent Mumbai terror attacks; I am still walking around angry - very angry and have guessed will remain so for a long time..
Arre…blasts are common in India these days. Didn’t you recently have one in your city (he meant Delhi)? Yeah but they have continued till today. Isn’t that a cause for concern? Not a bit. Waise bhi I am not going to office today. Isi bahane mid-we..
The physical scars are easier to see and with time do heal. Its the mental and emotional trauma that is not always easy to identify and even if you do, difficult to deal with. In such times, professional help can help the healing..
Don't waste on candles, bring us fruits and biscuits for the wounded, say doctors. This small news piece in my HT today made me feel so foolish, I am so caught up in my anger and in what can make me feel better that I am forgetting something. While the p..
My dad got called into work on Wednesday, 26th at 9.30 just as the first grenade burst and the first few rounds were fired in the Oberoi. I was out with a friend in a taxi at Colaba, just minutes away from Leopold, wondering why there was so much traffic..
Those were the words of a US citizen when asked about her reactions to the terrorist attack of 26/11. And I can't agree more. Being an Indian, I very well know that here, life has no pricetag. The events unfolding after 26/11..
Waking up on a burning image of Taj is something which I had never imagined in my rarest of rare dreams and is something which I will never forget in my life. The rescue operations are over and we are reeling under the effects of immature statements made..
We are the hostages Hostages of our own will We are the hostages Hostages of the monarchy..
Our anger and pain can lead to positive change. These terror attacks have shown that if we are United, we are a Superpower. Divided we will become, after some more terror attacks, riots and civil wars, a Banana Republic...
In my last post, I had written abut how Mumbai had been humiliated nationally. Ironically, the horrific turn of events that took place in the past few days have shamed the city in front of the whole world. The city’s security and crisis management measu..
After the blasts in Ahmedabad on 26 July this year, I had written a detailed post about Islamic terrorism in India, indeed the world. But at that time, terror was not an item of discussion on the dinner tables of Indians who have a voice. Then, it was som..
I know this is way off topic and in no way related to the blog I'm running but as an Indian I can't just keep quiet and bottle up all those feelings inside me. I have to let it out. Last 40 odd hours has been the most gruelling and disturbing hours in my..
And its finally over. The terrorists got what they had come here for. The brave, gallant, outstanding, efficient NSG commandos fought like real heroes for the motherland, for my Hindustan. The cowards have met their fate, and so will their masters, soon...
(Since last two days I am trying to write this post, deleting it, rewriting it, simply pouring extreme-st of anger. Unable to go ahead and post something else; I decided to write nothing and just....You can go here for a virtual tour of the iconic hotel..
