Mumbai Fights Back?!

26th November 2008
It was an ideal night in the city of dreams-Mumbai,the financial capital of India,the epicenter of entertainment industry of India,and so on.Words are not enough to describe what Mumbai is to India.I was seated in my couch and glancing through the boring repeat telecasts on the idiot box when the supreme head(DAD) of my house rushed through the front door and told me to switch to the news channel.Indeed there was something strange,the news channel reported a firing in CST train station.

10:15 pm Drama Unfolds....
I was startled to see the news,my mother had just joined us in the living room.Everyone glued to the television more in horror rather than interest.I quickly switched over to a English news channel from a Hindi one(No offense but Hindi news channel have a habit of sensationalizing the news i.eSANSANI).From initial reports it seemed that couple of retards were firing point blank with guns on the station.Speculation floated everywhere that this can be a gang war taken on the streets.But soon enough it was clear it wasn't a gang war,a gang war couldn't justify firing in Leopold Cafe,Oberoi & Trident Hotel,Taj Hotel,Cama Hospital and Nariman Bhavan.Phones Started ringing at my residence to check whether we were safe or not.Just the terror in the voices of concerned one made me shiver.And then i thought what about those who were there in these places,it just made me numb.

27th November 20081:00 am Terror Strikes Mumbai
By about 1 am in the night it was clear that it was definately a terrorist activity which had rattled the TOWNSIDE of Mumbai.Calls from across the country and abroad had already floated at our small house.Then the news channel flashed a hostage drama in Oberoi,Trident & Taj.Another information landed that CST terrorists were neutralized.Wham!!!!Another Breaking News!2 Terrorist run off in a police van killing top cop ACP Ashok Kamte,Encounter Specialist Vijay Salaskar,& ATS Chief Hemant Karkare.I hadnt heard any of these name before but i could tell that these were very important men.This piece of news was somehow a dagger to the Mumbai police.It almost seemed that terrorist had achieved to paralyze the defense system of Mumbai.But they were far aware that two squadron of NSG(National Security Guards) had been dispatched from New Delhi.Probably a very wise move at the given circumstances.The decision of calling the NSG was initiated by Late Hemant Karkare,this news made the city realise what a loss had just happenend to the nation.

3 :00 am NSG Arrives....
By 3 am the NSG,the Navy Commandos,the Army Commandos had all converged to target places.It is around this time that people the officials and the people viewing the telecasts realised that the magnitude of this attack was by far more advanced and precise than expected.It is the first time Mumbai Luxury Hotels were targeted and how!.News started flowing in on who these people were and how they landed here.1 terrorist had been caught who was made to talk by the ATS.20 terrorist shipped from shores of Karachi to Mumbai via Porbander in Gujrat.Armed young men with age on their side and completly brainwashed in the name of Jihaad.With just a speculative information in their hand the NSG storm into the target places risking their lives for people trapped in these places.Fire bursts out as soon as the NSG storms in the Taj hotel,intially on the 8th Floor than on the Dome and so on.The Fire Crew was rushed in.Same was the scenario at Oberoi hotel.I saw a image of fire right behind the big dome of Victorian Designed Taj hotel and it almost seemed like a aura sending a eerie feeling in the air.It truly seemed as if DEATH was in the air.