The day when Taj was attacked..

It started all at the Leopold cafe just a street away from my current address. For the last 5 years I have been living in colaba and visit "Taj" and the "Leopold" very often. They both being a stone throw away from my office were often used for our business meetings and birthday bashes . On the fateful night of November 26 when they were attacked I was in the office working late and catching up the cricket match. I was about to go down at exactly 9:30 for having my dinner and would have crossed Leopold on my way to "Olympia" one of the other food joints. I was alerted by the peon who went down to grab his dinner. He called me and told me to stay indoors and lock the office from inside. I was the only one left in the office.

For the next whole day I was locked inside the office watching the horror unfolding on TV and catching the glimse of Taj from my office window. It was bombed burned and sprayed with bullets for the next 62 hours. I along with the whole country watched helplessly as they killed our men women and children mercilessly. They came here to kill and they did with such intensity that it left us all scarred. Our cities have been bombed in the past and innocent citizens have been killed but as always we have just done nothing to prevent such incidents.

I know this incident too will be forgotten like all other attacks and we will get back to normal waiting for some other incident to happen and in the meantime watch the country being raped by corrupt politicians. We as a citizen of this country have zero security and we must be fooling ourselves if we believe this political class of ours is going to deliver a safe environment to us. Terrorism is a cancer of this country. Though it is caused by various political reasons its effects are always devastating.

We all know about the problem but what is the solution. We must agree that this problem does not have a single line solution. It needs treatment on political, economic , social and military level. We need a better breed of politicians to treat this menance , economic and social upliftment of the millions of downtrodden who gives the fodder to the fire of extrimism. The pan india agency on the lines of army to tackle terror on both national and international scale and a zero tolerance to terror approach.
It is not a one day job I know and I can wait to breathe in a safe , secure and prosperous India. In the meantime what I can do as a common man is to atleast do my duties of putting effort towards changing our political class and do my bit in economic upliftment of this country. I hope the country never forgets this attack and may it be a turning point in the history of our country.