bank robbed, mumbai mauled
so much has happened in last few days. i have been having such an interesting bit of luck since so many years now. one nov 21, i got an SMS from my bank ICICI saying that i have transferred money from my account to some Raj.
i got alarmed and immediately logged and checked my balance. the money had vanished already.
it was due to a Phish mail that got me by my neck.
i called up bank's help phone and registered my detailed complaint. he suggested to do an FIR with th police.
then i wrote to the manager from the website itself. after all this i went to the local police station. they said that elctronic crime FIRs are done at the crawford market.
next morning (nov 22, kalika's b'day) i went to my branch at Bandra and gave them a writen complaint again. they too asked me to do an FIR with the cyber-cell at crawford market. they also told that the account of Rajesh Kumar (culprit) has ben frozen.
i reached cyber cell at 12.45pm. but they discouraged me to register the FIR, saying that it will put you in a lot of inconvinience and money will land with police. you will have to struggle to get it out of them may take very long. i gave up.
i came out. i was hungry and decided to have lunch at an endangered Parsi restaurant, 'Kayani'. I had a chicken n cheese sandwich, banana milk shake and tea (Rs 65 only). i bought some khari, mawa cake and buns and came to metro bus stop. here i got a call from ICICI's BPO asking me to do an FIR. i told them that i just outside the cyber-cell and have been adviced not do so. earlier i had spoken to one prateek's lawyer friend who also told me that since the money is not stolen from your property, you should not be filing the FIR, but bank should be doing it. she argued with me. the bus arrived after 30min. it was a long wait; but i endured.
reached home and did some flower arrangement for the party in the evening. the party was quite nice. they had got karaoke and kalika made me sing. i am so ashamed onhow badly i sang. worst of me ever.
on nov 26 at 9.30, we got a call saying that we shoudl watch TV news. it was the beginning of the worst terrorist attack on mumbai. they hit CST station, Cama hostital, outside metro, chaupati, oberoi-trident, nariman house (home to jews) in colaba and Taj hotel. it has ended today (nov 29) in the morning. last place to be cleared of gun men was Taj.
i have been watching so much of this depressing news for nearly 60 hours, except while sleeping at night. i had to watch it. i love mumbai and i love Taj. the way they mauled it by shooting, throwing grenades and burning it up. thankfully building is still erect. Ratan Tata and CEO Krishna Kumar have vowed to reserrect it to its former glory in an years time.
toady my head was so heavy that i wanted to do something. may be go some where. got a call from Meera. told her about my depressing state of mind. in afternoon i called up kishu if i could go to her, but she was busy.
at 4pm dharam came over. i decided to sleep over at his place. i will do that.
he was shooting at Allahabad. he got pictures of my old house at Khuldabad. the staircase, the gate on the GT road. and the pix of Khusro Baugh. i will send some of them to seema so that she can show them to shyam chacha.
i hope this is the climax of my interesting period of 'one' type. let the 'second' type period usher in now this moment...