Comments on: The night Mumbai was held hostage by terror.

By: Nihar

Nihar — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:30:13 +0000

It was very sad to see this happen time and again. Hope our politicians atleast learn from this terrible tragedy and come up with more stringent laws and tighten the security.

By: Domestic Avalanche

Domestic Avalanche — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:52:11 +0000

@Ash, you are right. The national security should primarily come from Intelligence.

This is an eye opener to reform RAW to help avoid such debacles like these.

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:53:59 +0000

I was checking out NDTV’s website and came across two particularly interesting write-ups:

1. This one’s a basic rule missed by our tactical units, but rightly pointed out by the Israelis.

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080074475

2. Navy has started blaming the Somali pirates now!!! YEss…you read that right!!! Those guys!!! Read more:

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080074475

ROFL on this one man!!

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:43:44 +0000

I for one believe India’s now had its ‘Munich’ moment, although the tactical part of it has been very good so far. But to think of it in larger terms, I don’t think RAW would ever be as good as MOSSAD or the CIA or the Chinese intel for that reason. This is nothing new. Earlier in the 90s, it was like if you go to Kashmir, you meet terror and terrorists but now, they visit you at home. Quite honestly, I don’t see any difference between living in any part of India and Kashmir well, except for maybe marginally higher risks… Of course, here in Chennai, we are all protected by Rajini )

By: Jithin

Jithin — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:24:04 +0000

The political bull shit has already started.. The blame game, ‘you dint do that, but i did when i was in office’ and all that..
The people who died, and the cops who risked their necks will be forgotten soon..
No small blame on the media..
What happened to responsible journalism?
It’s just ‘marketable journalism’ these days…

By: Domestic Avalanche

Domestic Avalanche — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:50:41 +0000

The international aspect of the attack has been a big success.

It is almost 24 hours and all the news channels here (US) are covering only this story non-stop.

I could assume that the same is happening in UK and other countries as well.

By: Domestic Avalanche

Domestic Avalanche — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:44:34 +0000

@Arvind,

Vinu’s flickr gallery was used by CNN, MSNBC and all other news networks in the US as well and they were showing the link to it as well.

The good thing he did was that he posted the images within minutes and people were able to see a few images and take in the devastation.

By: Domestic Avalanche

Domestic Avalanche — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:42:07 +0000

@Robin…

I agree… it is not time to have any partisan fights and blaming and name calling. It is an attack against the country and more specifically to the values of democracy and freedom.

All Indians should be united at this moment. We cannot afford to do otherwise.

By: scorpiogenius

scorpiogenius — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:38:00 +0000

^^ yeah i saw it..

but they were giving details of another website, but I couldnt open it.

By: Aravind Jose T.

Aravind Jose T. — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:38:24 +0000

Following it from 11.00 PM yesterday.
20 hours and it’s still ON

Twitter finally got recognized

Vinu, living near Taj, Mumbai posted images his images on flickr yesterday night and his profile was visited 280000 times, within 14 hours.

He was ON AIR for CNN INTERNATIONAL for 5 MINS