Mumbai Blasts
Mumbai has been subjected to one more calamity this July. If last July it was nature @ it’s worst, then this July it is man @ his beastly worst.
Planting bombs in local trains (which carry millions of people daily) during peak hours and blowing people away.
7 Bombs, 200 dead and around 780 injured is the latest toll. The news papers are reporting it on front page with pictures of crying relatives, weeping parents, anguished brother reading the list of dead people, journos writing a dairy of their D-Day reporting…. All very gut wrenching…
They say pictures say a thousand words. I saw the pic of a woman weeping on her husbands shoulder and the husband looking far away with tears in his eyes. Their 18 your old son is battling his life. The kid is on a ventilator and is an ICCU. The next 36 hours are critical.
Theres a pic of small time businessmen whos both legs have been ampuated because they were a mangled mesh of muscles and tissue. The doctors had no other option. This guy wanted to make it on his own feet in Mumbai. Well Mumbai did not allow him his dream. Correction. The terriorists didn’t allow him his dream.
The toll in numbers mentioned the people dead and the people injured. No where does it mention the dreams that have come crashing down due to the loss of a near one. Or loss of a body part.
Dreams to marry someone.
Dreams to see my son graduate.
Dream to play with my son and watch him go to school.
Dream to get wet with my girlfriend in rains.
Dream to own that 1BHK flat after my next increment.
Dream to plan for a kid.
Dream to fall in love for the first time.
Dream to play my first match.
Dreams to eat hot steamy pakodas with tea with my grandson…
Dreams….dreams…and dreams…. a zillion dreams must have come crashing down.
I really don’t understand what the terriorists achieved. I mean if they wanted to cripple the financial capital of India they failed miserably. The very next day, the city was on its feet. Attendance @ offices and school was like most other days. The public transport systems were working. The stock market closed around 300 points higher.
So what did they achieve?
Maybe the only thing they achieved was make us Mumbaities a bit harder and reselient. Tested our tolerance and maybe made a little dent in it. Made us wonder about how fragile our life is. Made us a wee bit less trusting and less smiling.
We have stared suspecting each beared person or a fidgeting guy around us - is he a bomber.
The spirit of Mumbai is in its people. Their friendly approach. Their never say die attitude. The capability to dream and materialize it. But has this spirit lost its zest? Has the city lost its verve? NO. A resounding NO to those mean BTADSRDS
Agreed a million dreams died. But new ones have taken place. My only worry is that hope, not one of this dream is to avenge or take revenge. Because that would mean playing right into the hands of the terriorists.
So dream on… cause Mumbai has always been a city of Dreams…. they are our little islands in this insane world….