26th July! Mother nature ripped through Mumbai and left lives shattered. Those cries of loss, hopelessness and chaos still echo all around me. Floating bodies, Dead Cattle strangulated in their attempt to run away from shelter, Abandoned life - Images that will stay with me forever. Marooned in office, stranded somewhere in between and Millions of people trying to find a way (me and a dear friend being one of them) - Right from wading through murky water to halting an outstation train midway to climb aboard just to get that one step closer to homeI lie silently with my eyes wide open thinking of places and the people i came across who for no reason helped me.... whom i wouldn't have met if not for this night. Memories linger - That one call to Pa to tell him I'm allrite just minutes before the network went kaput to the warmth of the soup to keep my hands warm given by an unknown friend, to the frantic call of the cow that mooed all nite.
Strangely enough it made me fight DRENCHED, SOILED AND BATTERED. Likewise Mumbai moved on... But has it really? Though the common man might already have wiped off the memory... There are hundereds of families who still wake up with tears in their eyes, go through their daily wanderings with a dull ache coursing through them.
Mumbai... Today Take a moment to remember those who died and those who survived. Those who helped and those who made sure Mumbai moved on. Our greatest failing will be to forget.
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