I am still grief stricken. Still numb and restless. What if? Irony and irony. I frequented Oberoi Trident so often in the last 6 months during my assignment to meet my clients, taking interviews and used almost all the restaurants the beautiful hotel had to offer. I am still awakening to the fact that my last meeting since I left Mumbai couple of weeks before was at fateful Tiffin! I cannot come in terms with the fact that I was sitting there on the place may be where the first grenade was lobbed!!! I don't think this scar will leave me soon. This brutality cannot be summarized in few words, anger, fear and everthing that I can envisage at one go crosses my mind. Am I safe? Can I take my family out for a casual dinner ever to some place without this fear in my mind, what if? My wife is shell shocked, she is in denial mode and says come what may I am not going to Mumbai for as many months as possible! My father and mother are so anxious with my safety now that they are asking me to limit myself to whatever I have! This is the real state of affair! Do I limit myself, do I limit myself just because my government elect cannot provide me the safe passage to live! A basic expectation! I can straight away blame that it is nothing but lack of will and flawed strategies, but how long we will keep continuing doing this and telling the same stuff over and over again. We need to stand up now. We have to do something. We cannot leave our fate on others to decide anymore.
I hope all the people here who belongs to that beautiful city is safe and sound.
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