I was sent the below link through a forwarded email. The images speak for themselves. I would just like to add that I met some of these photographers recently. As an amateur photo-journalist myself, I can’t begin to imagine the kind of courage these shutterbugs must have mustered to point cameras at madmen carrying Kalashnikovs [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Mumbai’
1 December, 08
A Walk, Not War, Against Terrorism
30th November, 2008; Jangli Maharaj Road and Shambhaji Park:
Over one thousand students and citizens from Pune, mostly dressed in white and armed with candles, marched through the City’s streets this evening in an effort to evoke unity and solidarity amongst the people of our terror-inflicted nation. The congregation came together primarily due to the efforts [...]
30 November, 08
“Stand up. Speak Out. Enough is Enough. Let’s take back this country.”
The Mumbai terror attacks have certainly injected much anger, despair and frustation in the minds of many Indians and foreigners. Several people who were previously indifferent to terrorism have suddenly been shaken by the utter brutality of last weeks strikes. Here’s an extract from a young Indian voice in Pune that cries out in the [...]
28 November, 08
Work-In-Progress: A Nation Unites
Akshara Kumar Chittoor writes on the Mumbai Terror Attacks:
Woke up this morning and thought, ‘Please God, let it be over!’ Got out of bed and headed straight to the television: pictures and reports of what I was dreading continued to spew from it – the encounters at the Taj, the Trident and Nariman House dragged [...]
3 October, 08
Aamchi Mumbai
Rahul Singh Talwar writes from our neighbouring metropolis:
There is something very sexy about Bombay. Ahem, my apologies… Mumbai.
There is no place in India which is more cosmopolitan than Mumbai and even the one who shall not be named cannot change it, however hard he tries.
I always knew that Mumbai was a melting point of cultures, [...]
