At The Edge

The exact chronology of events isn't clear. What is known  is that by the end of October 1972, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of British rock band Led Zeppelin, who were not yet the legends that they were eventually going to be, along with their manager Richard Cole had one night walked into a small pub named  'Slip Disc' in Bombay  and before a dazed Indian audience gave an impromptu performance with support from local musicians. The re-telling by these local rock musicians was going to become the primary source of  this lesser known, lesser documented story involving one of the greatest rock band ever. [Check ' One Muggy Night in Mumbai ... '( Published in Times of India Pune, on 7th July, 2001 ) by Nandu Bhende, one of the musicians who performed with the band.] All evidence suggests that this was in fact their third visit to the city. But for Indian fans of the band, it proved to be the most memorab...

After that post with shrill voices from Pakistan , here are some varied opinions (comments on the posts tell the real story) from Pakistani Blogosphere on Mumbai Terror Attack of 26/11: Manan Ahmed at chapatimystery.com got (a few) comments as he broke the story on 26th. His first sentence had Lashkar-e Tayiba. One commenter (5) on 28th came up with pretty much all the possible scenarios. According to Scenario No .4: India will survive this crisis and if they can control the impulse to kill a few thousand innocent Muslims, they will actually emerge stronger because this will lead to some serious reorganization of their extremely primitive and inept security services. On 27th,  Shaheryar Ali at Pak Tea House wrote an Ode to Bombay . He writes a line that many Indians believe and take strength in: They will fail to destroy India , they will fail to destroy the thousands of years old tradition of culture of tolerance and wisdom. On 28th, Adil Najam at pakistaniat.com , in a show...

Amresh Mishra of Times of India too has termed the attack on 26th November as an attempt to divert attention from saffron terrorism. He lamented that with Hemant's death have got buried many secrets. Was the attack then meant to scuttle investigations that were exposing the ugly face of Sang Parivar which, after exploding bombs at Malegoan and Samjota Express, used to get away throwing muck on SIMI, Indian Mujahedeen, HUJI and Lashkar. Some analysts in India do not rule out the possibility of involvement of Bhonsala Military School or Abhinav Bharat, which have recently come under scanning lenses of ATS. A Perspective from Kashmiri Newspaper (probably the most popular one): Greater Kashmir This is nothing new, during the Amarnath Land Row earlier this year, the same News paper carried an opinion according to which the way Jammu agitation was being managed, [it clearly]:  substantiates the much talked about the Mossad plan for strangulating Kashmir economically. There have bee...

Video link These voices never change but the lives of people do change with each such incident.

Mumbai, 26th November, 2008 And this was Mumbai long long ago

Click to get a larger picture Aye dil hai mushkil jeena yahan Zara hat ke zara bach ke, yeh hai Bombay meri jaan - Lines of the famous song from the movie C.I.D(1956) The collage made up of old photographs of Mumbai,then known as Bombay. Reading the images from top and left to right Church Gate Station (1910) Color illustration of Apolla Bunder, Bombay. The place is now known as Gateway of India Asiatic Town Hall Ballard Pier. It was once a Railway Station Kalbadevi Road Oval Maidan near Churchgate Station, 1875 Three Cars and a Tonga on Queens Road Victoria Terminus (now known as Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus) Gowalia Tank Walkeshwar. The note for the color illustration reads: H.E. THE GOVERNOR OF BAMBAY DRIVING THROUGH WALKESHWAR ROAD, BOMBAY Wilson Collage, Girgaon Chopati Steam Engines at Parel Loco Shed Train at Mumbai Central Car Shed, 1950. Again from a Rail museum. The note reads: Old and New rakes stand in contrast at the Bombay Central EMU Carsh...