At a time like this, feeling helpless is normal emotion. But to suppress the growing voice inside is a crime. Here is reason to believe cricket, like several facets of life, was on target when terror struck at the heart of Mumbai on the night of 26th November, 2008.
Here is the audio-visual account of assessment of the night that shook Mumbai and halted cricket in its tracks.
Terror Strikes Mumbai - CJ From Mumbai React
If the audio does not have the clarity, here are the words in the print form.
Sreelata S. Yellamrazu:
What began as a sporadic shooting incident in the Leopold Café in Colaba, Mumbai turned into an all out war. This was not the time to take stock. There would be no time for that.
Instead these devious minded individuals, led astray by the falsely fortified beliefs whatever they be, decided that the lives of innocent, hardworking people returning home from their hard ground lives was less than collateral damage for their cause. In a well schemed strategy, they decided to hit Mumbai where it matters – on the streets where livelihood is a day long battle and in some of the most posh hotels that marked Mumbai’s skyline.
By targeting Mumbai in this fashion that has left the police force inadequate, has required the army and navy to be simultaneously deployed and by holding Mumbai to ransom by attacking its foreign tourists, they have shown that a war launched by ten terrorists on some of the safest hotels in the city is enough to destabilize the financial capital of the country.
Single handedly they have achieved what could not be done before through communal riots, unprecedented floods or train blasts – bring the entire city to a grinding halt and leaving it frail and shell shocked unlike ever before and now more visibly vulnerable and not as imperviously bold as previously paraded.
That the touring cricket teams are now heading back home is another indicator that perhaps the terrorists have now succeeded to showing that India is no less a danger or that it faces a threat to its security than, say Pakistan, when it came to conducting tours. Is it a mere coincidence that in less than twenty-fours hours of the first strike, four IPL teams were scheduled to arrive at the Taj? Was this a move just to prove a point?
