Life after death begins with a post mortem! A Vowter account

Life after death begins with a post mortem!

Mumbai has been attacked. It was a war on India. Now the City is limping back to its normalcy, it’s time to do a quick post-mortem and go ahead with a firm agenda to rebuild the city.

Senior journalist-corporate editorial consultant B N Kumar has floated a Blog – missioinmumbai.wordpress.com – to bring together some thoughts to promote the concept of rebuilding Mumbai.

“Not that Mumbai has been ravaged in the terror war. But more than physical loss, it has left deep scars on the minds of the peace loving, right thinking, law abiding and above all hardworking people here,” says BNK.

To kick-start the web discussion, he raised a few questions saying: “Life after death starts with a post mortem. Let’s do that. To my mind, few stray thoughts occur.”

• The media coverage and the hoopla raised over the attacks clearly expose the divide in Mumbai – South Mumbai versus the rest.
• Why did e very one ignore the attacks on VT (CST) for a very, very long time, until Taj was “liberated”?
• Why weren’t the channels showing live from JJ and other hospitals?
• Why weren’t OB vans parked at VT to gauge the sense of mood of the so-called common man, the commuter?
• Why have all us forgotten the fact that Gateway was built in honour of the British King’s landing in Mumbai, where as CST (then VT) is the commonman’s hub?
• The various newspaper pages are also full of stories of the elite and socialites suffering as though Mumbai begins and ends with them. Where are the stories of emotions of the kin of those shot dead at CST?
• Why, and why, there are no candle light processions and meetings at CST?

“Until, we shake ourselves out of this bias (could be inadvertent!), we will not see and change taking place. And please don’t expect other to change,” he said.