{"id":2312,"date":"2006-07-14T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2006\/07\/how-mumbai-rocked-day-blasts\/"},"modified":"2006-07-14T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T19:53:00","slug":"how-mumbai-rocked-day-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2006\/07\/how-mumbai-rocked-day-blasts\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mumbai Rocked That Day of the Blasts!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Read this touching and amazing story at Intentblog<\/a>! Please do read it \u2013 it is amazing in its narrative and the way Mumbai responded in those hours of need and disaster!!<\/p>\n

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A friend,travelling on the same train,witnessed the mumbai blast wrote the experience\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cSTUNNED\u201d \u2013 Mumbai Mirror.
\u201c7 BLASTS ROCK MUMBAI\u201d- yahoo headlines.<\/p>\n

Which editor wrote these lines? Which abysmal had the guts to talk about my mother land, MY CITY being stunned!!! I was there. I was on the train, in the hospital and on the streets and I didn\u2019t see Stunned. I saw Stunning\u2026stunning acts of kindness. And nothing rocked Mumbai. No self respecting Mumbaikar can believe that. No. Its not \u2018blasts rock Mumbai\u2019 cause Mumbai rocked, man. She simply ROCKED.<\/p>\n

Here is my story.<\/p>\n

For those who came in late\u2026I have started working in a tutoring firm at Andheri. So it\u2019s the night shift for me since the students are based in the States. So there I was standing at Dadar station. Waiting for the Borivili fast. She came bang on time. After the normal physical exercise routine (in other cities they call this \u2018boarding a train\u2019\u2026we Mumbaikars know better:):):)) I got in. The train started. Next stop Bandra\u2026Lots of people got in\u2026some tried to get out:). After the usual round of expletives, shouting and \u2018chod do na yaar\u2026are maramari mat karo'(forget about it, man\u2026don\u2019t fight guys) the train started.<\/p>\n

BOOM!<\/p>\n

My first impression was that the over head wire that supplies current to the train\u2019s engine had snapped. There had been a flash like a yellow light and then the lights went out. People started panicking. I don\u2019t know why but at such times I have the tendency to restore calm\u2026.a very close friend had once called this habit\u2026tere mein kida kam nahi hain..(can\u2019t translate this one) Neways, I roared out that people should calm down. Miraculously, they did. Someone asked for the chain to be pulled but by then the motorman had pushed the breaks. I jumped out of the train like the rest of the commuters and saw that the first class compartment ahead of us had blown up.<\/p>\n

I moved towards the compartment. People had already started pulling others out. Lots of guys had climbed the harbour line bridge that starts near Bandra station. Slowly, the injured started emerging. The first guy whose hand I held was merely stunned. Didn\u2019t have any money left\u2026wallet gone I think. I gave him twenty bucks and he went his way. As I turned towards the train, I saw a guy with lots of blood on his face\u2026thankfully none of it was his. He had temporarily lost his sense of hearing. Walked with him a lil distance. Bandra station was a stones throw away from the blown-up compartment. He recovered soon and some one took him to the station. I turned and saw four guys carrying a fifth. The injuired man was alive but i think, his hand would have to be amputated. A big guy was holding the patient\u2019s right shoulder was shouting for some one to steady the man\u2019s head which had no support. With nothing else to do, I stepped in.<\/p>\n

We took him to Bhaba hospital, Bandra. While the journey up till the auto rickshaw was tough the journey till the hospital was an eye opener. Carrying a 90 kilo man over the railway tracks, then over a 2 foot incline near the tracks, then over a railing and through the jam caused by the numerous autos which were ferrying patients to the hospital was tough even when four of us were carrying him. We reached the main road outside the station and got into the auto. The big saand (strong-guy) who had earlier called me for help, literally dragged a fellow who had hired the auto out and we got ourselves in. The big guy was sitting with the auto driver and I along with two others was holding the injuired man on our laps.<\/p>\n

Then the most beautiful thing happened. The guy to my right told the one to my left to start reciting verses from the Koran and to blow on the man\u2019s head. I think it is some Muslim prayer. The big guy said,\u201dOh lord! Have Mercy on this man!\u201d. A few minutes later that injured man who was half awake all this time started saying \u2018shiv shiv shiv\u2026om namah shivay \u2026om namah shivay.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I think back about that moment I smile to myself. We six of us in that small auto heading towards the hospital had done it. We had defeated the terrorists. Who can say we were stunned\u2026we won guys. We won. We defeated the terrorists\u2019 plan by that simple act of helping a fellow INDIAN. We didn\u2019t have to invade Pak or kill Muslims. We had won. Of course we could have lost if the 2 muslims had walked away from the man knowing that he was Hindu but they didn\u2019t. They continued working with me at the hospital for nearly an hour transporting bodies to the morgue, taking patients to the upper floors and providing a lil water to the other impromptu volunteers. Going towards the office after all this was over, was probably the stupidest thing I ever did but that gave me the chance to see the City become one. Guys in designer tees, shorts etc. were flooding out of their houses with water bottles. The rick I used was stopped in 4 places\u2026two places for others to get in ( the driver lied saying we were going to parel.) and at two others, hands full of Parle-G biscuits were thrust in so that we and the thousands of others like us who had been affected by the Western railway system being shut down could have something to eat. The over crowded buses were being given food and water at some signals with people throwing biscuit packets into the bus\u2026even good old Bourbon biscuit\u2026yummy:):):)<\/p>\n

All in all a lot happened yesterday but my city didn\u2019t budge. We have been hit before, we have been hit yesterday and we will continue to get attacked. The only thing to do is to come together. Together as One. For that is what the terrorists don\u2019t want to see. They don\u2019t realise that the more they attack us, the closer we become. We can\u2019t let ourselves go down so we can\u2019t give up.<\/p>\n

You may think what I did was pretty heroic\u2026it was may be\u2026but I like so many others wouldn\u2019t like to be called heroes. It feels very uncomfortable. If you want to give us a name just call us Mumbaikars. That name is
all-inclusive.<\/p>\n

Ishan I. Bhole.<\/p>\n

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Read this touching and amazing story at Intentblog<\/a>! Please do read it – it is amazing in its narrative and the way Mumbai responded in those hours of need and disaster!!<\/p>\n

===============<\/p>\n

A friend,travelling on the same train,witnessed the mumbai blast wrote the experience………<\/p>\n

“STUNNED” – Mumbai Mirror.
“7 BLASTS ROCK MUMBAI”- yahoo headlines.<\/p>\n

Which editor wrote these lines? Which abysmal had the guts to talk about my mother land, MY CITY being stunned!!! I was there. I was on the train, in the hospital and on the streets and I didn’t see Stunned. I saw Stunning\u2026stunning acts of kindness. And nothing rocked Mumbai. No self respecting Mumbaikar can believe that. No. Its not ‘blasts rock Mumbai’ cause Mumbai rocked, man. She simply ROCKED.<\/p>\n

Here is my story.<\/p>\n

For those who came in late\u2026I have started working in a tutoring firm at Andheri. So it’s the night shift for me since the students are based in the States. So there I was standing at Dadar station. Waiting for the Borivili fast. She came bang on time. After the normal physical exercise routine (in other cities they call this ‘boarding a train’\u2026we Mumbaikars know better:):):)) I got in. The train started. Next stop Bandra\u2026Lots of people got in\u2026some tried to get out:). 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