Mumbai: A day after three blasts shook Maximum City Mumbai, the city is back on track with people, though angry at the government’s inability to stop the terror strikes, returning to their work and business. Though Mumbaikars are back at work as they feel that there is no other option, fear still lurks.
Even as investigators try to look for clues at the blast sites, life in areas not affected by Wednesday’s strikes is back to normal with local trains full of students and people going to their work.
Share markets also functioned normally as the Sensex went up by almost 207 points , before closing in the green with 22.18 points gain at 18,618.2. The Sensex had dropped to 18,449.23 in early trade after the serial blasts shook investors’ confidence.
Some call it the ‘Spirit of Mumbai’, but unfortunately, ‘moving on’ is something that the financial capital of India has learnt to deal with, after repeatedly being the target of the terrorists. Almost 31 months ago in November 2008 Mumbai was the target of another dastardly terror strike when 10 Pakistani terrorists went on a killing spree and held the city to ransom for more than 60 hours.
Those attack, now known as 26/11, too failed to stop the city. Being the financial capital of the country, Mumbai has not learnt to slow down or stop, or rather, the city doesn’t have these options.
The busy jewellery market of Mumbai, Zaveri Bazar, one of the blast sites, on Thursday witnessed business as usual, with shops open and brisk activity.
Mumbai’s local trains, which were the target of serial blasts in July 2006, and are believed to be unsafe till date, were full on Thursday, just a day after three blasts rocked Dadar, Zaveri Bazar and Opera House, leaving 17 people dead and hundreds injured.
Now, after another attack, its residents who have probably seen the maximum number of terror attacks outside Jammu and Kashmir and the North eastern states, somewhere down the line feel, ‘do they really have an option?’
Mumbaikars are angry at being the target time and again and have several questions in their mind as to who really can stop these attacks, what can be done, where is the system going wrong.
The people of Mumbai are left asking: “We have anger, but this happens so often that now we have gotten used to it. What to do? We don’t understand.”
Mumbai has lost innumerable lives in terrorist attacks. From 1993 serial blasts to the July 2006 train attacks to 26/11 and now 7/13, the people of Mumbai have always managed to get back to life as usual, forgetting the past, looking towards the future.
There is fear, there is anger, there are questions, but, on top of all that there is the determination, the strength and the will, to move on and live life, even as the government tries to find out answers, and the politicos carry on with the usual blame game.
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