I got up late today, and the first thing I saw was the Times Headline screaming about co-ordinated terrorist attacks striking the heart of Mumbai. I right away reach for the remote. NDTV is talking to one of the hostages in Taj. And it strikes me only now. Its Day 2. And Mumbai is still under attack.
This attack, even by the standards of terrorism in India, is remarkably brazen in both scale and execution. The attackers allegedly used boats to reach the target areas, sites filled with the rich and the foreign tourists.
How do these guns and grenades pass by in BOATS???? without people on duty, hand-in-glove with these guys? How does the Intelligence fail us each time, each attack being more complex in nature than the previous one?
As I hear Deepak talk calmly???? to the NDTV correspondent about being holed up in his room, the fear that was kind of slowly but steadily going returns. Fear of going out into a crowded area. Fear of sending the boy to his school. Fear of letting the sister stay alone in another city.
Life may go back to normalcy again tomorrow, and I may not be as disturbed as I am today. I may be at Lifestyle the day after, buying something for my house, totally not needed. I may even take the kid out to Time Zone, or let him go there with friends.
Actually, I may not.
Update: A photograph of a suspected terrorist on rediff. The photo seems to be a of a young college kid with his college bag. How does one make out a terrorist from a college kid? :(
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