Monday, August 14, 2006

MUMBAI 7/11
WHAT NEXT..??

Mumbai: One of the busiest and the buzziest places on the globe.
11 July, another day full of business and buzziness spread all around in the lives of the Mumbaikars. People pacing off to their places after a hard day at work, in the "locals", one of the most frequent convinces considered.
"AARGHH!!", screamed on of the passengers, waiting for the local outside the Bandra station, when a bomb exploded outside the station. Chaos struck the station, haphazzardness trailed. It was a state of rampade for the people. In a sudden flash, the orange and red flames started to vapourize from the station. People's minds started boggling.
But then this wasn't the only "devastation", the Mumbaikars had to witness, as someone has rightly said, when something has to deviate from its path, it does so in the worst possible explanation.
The Bandra station bambardment was sequentially followed by another explosion that struck inside a local pulling out of the Mahim station. But the people couldn't keep a track of the number of explosions. The Mahim explosion (which took place at 6:23 pm), was followed by one at Khar (at 6:24 pm), Jogeshwari (6:25 pm), Matunga (6:30 pm), Mira road (6:31 pm) and the eventual one at Borivali (6:35 pm).
The hideous explosions (al of them) took place in the first class compartments and on the Western line (the majority of the people that travelled by the Western line were the Gujaratis). Intelligence has concluded these attacks was a retaliation for the Gujarat riots.
This wasn't perhaps the first time when the clouds of terror have hovered over this glamorous city. Its seen its limelites shatter into pieces. March 12, 1993, that marks the day as "BLACK FRIDAY", for the people of Mumbai, paved the way for over 250 Mumbaikars losing their lives and an uncountable nuber that succumbed to injuries. Its the second time the "BLACK FRIDAY" has been guested. The immediate question thats been raised to government after the sequel blasts is "Will it take 13 more years to put the people, who've done this, behind bars?"
So, whats next to be witnessed in our lives.. DELHI..??

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