4 posts tagged “mumbai”
Heritage wing of Hotel Taj Mahal bore the brunt of highest
terrorist violence - bullets, grenades, fires, blood, dead bodies.
Battle inside Taj lasted more than 60 hours (Nov 26-29, 2008). Islamic militants from Pakistan had false hope of demolishing Mumbai's most admired structure - but they
had no idea that it was 'unbreakable'.
Several Taj employees were
killed while taking guests to safety. Finally we have the images of
citizen coming to shower their 'unbreakable' love and respect for Taj
and spirit of Mumbai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXUY9yZdalY
Next morning (April 9) i got up at 6am and met Munnu and Bashir in the jogging park. After 30 min walk, i went with them and helped Bashir by setting up a blog for him. He wants to write about his psoriasis problems and how it is being cured. They chose the title as 'mypsoriasiscure'. His url is http://mypsoriasiscure.blogspot.com/ i guided him on some important points on how to go about writing posts and add pictures.
In the afternoon i said 'bye' to all and picked up my bag to meet Hersh near Inox theatre. We drove down to Lonavala later, stayed the night and left for Mumbai at 7am.
Sapna, Sean, Sara and Simon are in India after nearly 2 years. i had planned to meet them in Pune after my Shirota trek. So on 8th it was hard work for me. We had come back from the trek at 11.15am. i had a bath, rested and had lunch. i asked Balu for the local train schedule to Pune and took the 2.55pm train.
In Pune i called up Iris and told her that i was on my way to Munnu's house. As the door opened Anisa and Sameera jumped on me and covered me totally. i let them be. i did not ask them un-hig me. i could not see anything in front. It took nearly 2 min, before i could greet someone else. Munnu, Sapna, Aarti and Iris were all there. Sara and Simon did not recognise me. Understandable, they were very small when they left. i did not push them to talk to me. There was not enough time for this. i thought let them relax. Simon was more free and accepted chips from me.
i announced that i am going to spend all my time with Sapna. So that day where ever she was moving i was tagging along. i went for shopping with them to Life Style. then i stayed the night in James Court.
