The Web of Darkness on Mumbai

Mumbai, 13/7/2011
I remember that on that day our Polaris festival work was going on with the speed of light. Everyone was working in different sections of the festivals. I was working in the creative room and on that day we were happy that our dragon was near to completion. Sunith, Karen, Astrid, Joycelin, Harsh and I were working in the creative room. Dharma and sandesh was also sitting with us. Suddenly dharm got a call from his friend that some building fell down and glass cylinder was  blasted. Then we got little worried because the blast of gas cylinder was occurred near dharam's office. Dharm got scared and started calling and suddenly aalam came and told us that the web of terrorism is again developed on Mumbai.

The first bomb blasted at Charni road and second in Dadar and third in Zaveri bazaar and Mumbai went into darkness. The old memories of terrorist attacks and the worst days came forward my eyes. Everyone started calling their loved ones. I told my mom that I was sound safe in college and will wait for some time. Later everyone was trying to contact their parents but the mobile network got jammed. We couldn’t able to talk with our parents or anybody even messages were not delivering.

Later, we were told to gather in one room in college. We all gathered there. I just went outside to see how people reaction, which were living in Mumbai. The roads of Charni road got filled up with cars as everyone started leaving their offices and reaching home safely, even one side of road was filled up with red light cars. People were living office as fast as possible.

The security of college was also alerted. Then I came inside the room.  Everyone was worried and scared of blast. Some were watching news on Internet. The news channels facts of timing and where blast occurred were different so we were not able to get correct news. Then we decided to wait as recent memories of local train blast were flashing on our minds. Supraket got burji pav from a vendor for all of us as we were hungry. Then we contacted the head of hostels and they gave permission to all of us to stay in hostels. Some went to friends place and some to hostels. I and Sanket decided to go to Sandesh’s house; also Nagesh accompanied us till his house as he was also staying nearby. 

We left college and started walking, the roads were empty, except us there were only 5 to 6 people on road, and traffic was fast moving. The road which leads to sandesh house was stopped by police. I got happy that we were able to walk in the middle of road. The security was tightened. We passed the blast site, everywhere was silence and policemen. Some politicians were taking rounds on streets to calm and help panicked people and pay a visit the blast site. We reached his home safely. Some were providing foods and water to people. News channel reporters were reporting the news; everywhere the news reporter’s cars were parked. They were asking silly questions like What would you say about these people which died due to bomb blast?.

The day end with some silence of people in the darkness of Mumbai, and some were not aware of it, and some were again planning to attack Mumbai, but are we ready for it. Think of this??    

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