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| Wednesday, July 12, 2006 |
| The spirit of Mumbai and the Mumbaikar |
Abuse it, beat it, trample it, insult it, do the most dreadful things to it - but there is something about the spirit of Mumbai and the Mumbaikar. Take it all on and live it with the head held high. Come back fighting with no signs of defeat.
And I guess this is the way people will deal with what happened yesterday evening and other incidents starting from March 12, 1993. I have never lived in Mumbai and the longest I have lived here was maybe a few months. But over the last 13/14 years I have always visited it - initially to visit a cousin and then on work and recently as a couple of weeks back. Incidentally my first work related visit was in 1993 a few days after the blasts.
I have always been fascinated and have experienced the never-tiring spirit. I love the city despite the crowds, the chaos, the pollution and the life being led. But I wonder why it was done in the first place. However strong the spirit but the pain caused and felt can be numbing. More so for the people who have lost relatives and friends?
These heinous activities – for whatever cause it is done – causes damage physically to man, to property, but never the spirit.
Because, for me, such activities are done by the most cowardly bastards there are in this world. Do they have the courage to stand up and face the same people they killed? My answer is NO!
I think the world, and especially America should take note of this. They make such huge non-issues out of such incidents, had the same occurred in their countries? But they turn a blind eye towards what happens in India - especially in Kashmir. Aren’t these caused by terrorists? Wonder what would happen if America was hit with such frequency as in Kashmir.
Mumbai and the Mumbaikar, the people of India are with you. Go on, let's show the world what we are made of. The spirit of Mumbai shall never bow.
Jitendranath Patri
(The author is a regular reader of dancewithshadows.com and is a first time contributor) |
| posted by a correspondent @ 12:42 AM |
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I hope all these Guys who done the Massacre will read this one day or the other.
There is one story that when one gets angry, he doesn’t have the ability to face the consequences of life.
I hope all those people along with you who did this are not mentally matured enough.
If you have little bit of self respect left in you ….you should hang yourself
What did you people get when you took the lives of such innocent people. You have done a cowardice act by doing such kind of things. We the people of INDIA strongly condemn it. GO HANG URSELF…..
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"The empty half of the glass is always at the top"