Mumbai Massacre

I was at Leopold's earlier on Wednesday, infact me and my friends spent our entire Saturday between Metro Cinema, VT and the Oberoi where we stopped to get something to eat in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Am I lucky that everything happened after a few days or hours later? Or was someone else unlucky? I think this has nothing to do with luck or fate but the sheer lapse in security and information on behalf of the Indian government.

Its been a horrific 36 hours and there are still people stuck inside the hotels and Nariman house...Mumbai wears an desolate look..everyone is scared. In a city which prides itself for its MUMBAI SPIRIT, I see fear in the eyes of every passerby probably thinking "am I next?!"40 terrorists stormed the city with guns and granades, killed over 150 innocent people and injured over 300.

The responsibility of this entire episode rests only on the shoulders and conscience of a nation's goverment that is too busy bickering inernally and pointing fingers, rather than protecting the lives of it billion people. We trust these men and women to protect us, we believe that when we step out to go watch a movie or grab a coffee, we wont end up in the city morgue, and what we get in return in a fate worse than war.The day 26/11 will be etched in the minds of every Mumbaikar. It will take a very long time for this city to heal.

I pray for the couls of those lost in this massacre, I pray for those struggling to survive, I pray for those still trapped within and I salute those who have jumped in to save us. I also pray for a better goverment, a secure nation and a country where I dont have to think twice before stepping out my door...

I am angry...angry at the media who established contact with these terrorists and interviewed them via phones, INDIA TV you should be ashamed of your selves!! I am angry at the CM for not having any clue as to what was going on and not even trying to make an effort. I am angry at the PM for not slapping down tougher rules on every state and city. I am angry at human beings for terrorizing innocent people in their so called "holy war"...I am angry and so are many million citizens like me...its time someone answered our questions...its time the goverment took responsibility...its time this blood bath ended....