I cannot believe it has been a year already. I visited Mumbai over the summer and they've restored about 95% of the building to be as good as new, but have preserved a small section of it on the side. You can see bullet holes, smashed windows, and broken doors. It is a really chilling sight.
From the front, it looks like any other glamorous 5 star hotel, with Benze's and Beamer's rolling through, sophisticated businessmen moving in and out, a beautiful interior, and of course the smartly dressed staff that were courteous and seemed to know over 5 languages. But only when you see the remains of 26/11 do you remember the sight of the Taj on fire, terrorists storming through the hotel and commandos trying their best to save these people. It was extremely chilling.
I stayed in the Taj Land's End, a sister hotel to the main Taj on my visit. Security was air tight. Took about half an hour from the gate of the hotel to getting inside with all the checks.
RIP Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, and to those who lost their lives on November 26th, 2008. My thoughts and prayers are with their families.
Just what i wanted to post!
I can't believe it's an year already. The pain, the tragedy, The triumph, the Sacrifice, everything feels like it's happened yesterday. Not many months after the trauma i visited Mumbai, in April. The City was as casual as it could be, the people from all parts of the world visiting the Taj, but there's a sort of pain you feel in love that's in Mumbai. It's such a beautiful city and thinking about 26/11, only makes us think why should it have happened. Yes, it's an eye-opener to diminish carelessness, but they all do it too late. There was a security man padded with, and has heavy rifles at the entrance of Victoria Terminal. It was all too late. The feelings of people got stronger against terrorism and protecting the country against any sort of crimes. But it's dropping out as secondary to their priorities.
The 26/11 has taken away more than 200 lives, and torn away some lives, heartbreaking stories came up, anger had no end, But people should and always need to remember the martyrs who SACRIFICED Their lives for Us, Would we do the same as they if we were to play as a commando tackling the terrorists and Ensuring the endangered lives of the people?
Once and for all, let's take out to do something for the country, contribute to at least make sure the SACRIFICE of the great commandos never go in vain.
RIP to all the martyrs. Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Hemant Karkare, Ashok Kamte, Vijay Salaskar, Shashank Shinde.
Tears fall off my eyes. We'll never let this bloody incident happen again, ever. Whatever happens.
JAI HIND.
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