No. 13 - Unlucky for some

On the way out of that sweet college life - 12 days before I counted the last days of the teen years, something rocked our mind and soul and bodies of millions of Mumbaikars. It has been all of 13 years and 6 months exactly after that and there is a glimmer of justice that is being meted out. Finally, At last, a lot of people would say with a sigh of relief. Statistically it has taken all of 13 years to bring to book people responsible for 13 bomb blasts that went off in a little over 2 hours. A year each for each bomb blast!

When I track back to that day, sitting in class in St. Xaviers College, sitting there brave with my teenager hot blood running through my veins, this had become common place already. 3 months had changed people from Dec 06 1992 till Mar 12 1993. First the rioting and then the blasts - immunity had set in. That was the first time I saw the spirit of Mumbai and it became more evident on the 13th of March where people were back to business as usual as though nothing had happened. I too went back to college to hear the bravado, rumors, truth from friends and college mates. It had become apparent that this is how it was going to be. This was not the end – this was the beginning.

Other instances have happened over the last 13 years and I’m not sure if all those people responsible have been arrested, judged and punished. But as they say the show must go on. Life is too short to worry about what if it got cut shorter. Maybe that’s survival – Maybe that’s the fighting spirit.