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This is a burning issue of attack on humanism and this is worldwide. We can’t side pass this fact as describing it is political. When my next door is burning under fire, I can’t sleep deeply by shutting my door.
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We Condemn Terrorism
Though this is not an issue of a creative people or to interact with creative thoughts in this ‘Creative Crossing’, this is a burning issue of attack on humanism and this is worldwide. We can’t side pass this fact as describing it is political. When my next door is burning under fire, I can’t sleep deeply by shutting my door.
Yes, I am talking about the recent terrorist attack in Mumbai. Since last few years, not only in India, through out world, from the destruction of twin tower in America, this is a major threat into our mankind as well a major threat into our creative thinking.
Though you all are well aware this recent news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, I am quoting this news from the major news agencies for your update. I welcome your valuable contributions of comments & suggestions in this major threat. I welcome your creative protests in the form of paintings, drawings, poetry or else. Please join us & make it a strong platform of protest against terrorism.
Gunmen who arrived by boats launched attacks on at least seven locations in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday night, killing more than 120 people, authorities say.
Indian soldiers take position outside Chabad House, the scene of one the Mumbai attacks.
By Friday morning, authorities believed militants still were in two luxury hotels and a Jewish center in the city.
The following is what is known about the attacks:
• Gunmen arrived by boats at the Mumbai waterfront near the Gateway of India monument on Wednesday night, police said. The gunmen hijacked cars, including a police van, and split into at least three groups to carry out the attacks, according to police.
• One group headed toward the Cafe Leopold, a popular hangout for Western tourists, firing indiscriminately at passers-by on the street. The group then opened fire and lobbed grenades at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, authorities said.
• As police rushed to the scene of the attacks, gunmen attacked the Cama Hospital for women and infants. Several people were killed at the hospital, and a standoff there lasted until Thursday morning.
• Two other groups attacked the Oberoi and Taj Mahal hotels, taking hostages there, police said.
• Gunmen also took hostages at the Chabad House, where several Jewish families live, police said. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the city's envoy for the community, was being held inside with his wife, a member of the Hasidic Jewish movement said. Gunmen and hostages still were believed to be in the house Friday morning.
• Police said gunmen fired indiscriminately from the Chabad House. Stray bullets killed a couple in their home and a 16-year-old boy who stepped outside, police said. Two women and a child escaped from the building Thursday, a government official says.
• At the hotels, hostages or people who were trapped left at various times Thursday and Friday. Commandos entered both hotels, trying to flush out militants and rescue others.
• By Friday 12:30 a.m. IT, one gunman remained in the Taj hotel, and two others remained at the Oberoi hotel, the director-general of the National Security Guards said. At 1 a.m., one gunman was killed at the Oberoi hotel, the official said. He said he couldn't say for sure how many gunmen were still at the Oberoi.
• An undetermined number of nonmilitants remained inside the hotels Friday morning, NSG director-general J.K. Dutt said. "There are some of them inside the rooms, and they are not prepared to open the doors," he said. "Probably they are fearing that it might not be an innocent."
• Fire brigades battled fires at both hotels. By early Friday, it appeared what had been a major fire at the Oberoi had been extinguished.
• By Friday morning, 125 had been killed in the attacks, including at least six foreigners, authorities said. An Italian and a Briton were among the confirmed dead. Another 327 people were wounded, including seven Britons, three Americans and two Australians.
• Authorities found 8 kilograms (17 pounds) of RDX, one of the most powerful kinds of military explosives, at a restaurant near the Taj, indicating that the attackers may have been planning more violence.
• The Indian navy, stepping up patrols on the country's western coast after the attack, was questioning the crew of the MV Alpha, a ship detained with the help of the Indian coast guard, British authorities said. The authorities said they believe the attackers' boats came from this ship, and that they believe the ship is from Karachi, Pakistan.
• Karachi police say they have no evidence the attackers departed from their city.
• Several Indian news outlets report a group called the Deccan Mujahideen e-mailed them to claim responsibility. Intelligence officials say little is known about the group. U.S. officials and security analysts say the sophistication of the attacks may indicate a more-established group is responsible.
• State media Press Trust of India, citing Union Cabinet Minister Kapil Sibal, reported the gunmen had worked for months to prepare, even setting up "control rooms" in the two luxury hotels that were targeted.
Though this is not an issue of a creative people or to interact with creative thoughts in this ‘Creative Crossing’, this is a burning issue of attack on humanism and this is worldwide. We can’t side pass this fact as describing it is political. When my next door is burning under fire, I can’t sleep deeply by shutting my door.
Yes, I am talking about the recent terrorist attack in Mumbai. Since last few years, not only in India, through out world, from the destruction of twin tower in America, this is a major threat into our mankind as well a major threat into our creative thinking.
Though you all are well aware this recent news of the terrorist attack in Mumbai, I am quoting this news from the major news agencies for your update. I welcome your valuable contributions of comments & suggestions in this major threat. I welcome your creative protests in the form of paintings, drawings, poetry or else. Please join us & make it a strong platform of protest against terrorism.
Gunmen who arrived by boats launched attacks on at least seven locations in Mumbai, India, on Wednesday night, killing more than 120 people, authorities say.
Indian soldiers take position outside Chabad House, the scene of one the Mumbai attacks.
By Friday morning, authorities believed militants still were in two luxury hotels and a Jewish center in the city.
The following is what is known about the attacks:
• Gunmen arrived by boats at the Mumbai waterfront near the Gateway of India monument on Wednesday night, police said. The gunmen hijacked cars, including a police van, and split into at least three groups to carry out the attacks, according to police.
• One group headed toward the Cafe Leopold, a popular hangout for Western tourists, firing indiscriminately at passers-by on the street. The group then opened fire and lobbed grenades at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station, authorities said.
• As police rushed to the scene of the attacks, gunmen attacked the Cama Hospital for women and infants. Several people were killed at the hospital, and a standoff there lasted until Thursday morning.
• Two other groups attacked the Oberoi and Taj Mahal hotels, taking hostages there, police said.
• Gunmen also took hostages at the Chabad House, where several Jewish families live, police said. Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, the city's envoy for the community, was being held inside with his wife, a member of the Hasidic Jewish movement said. Gunmen and hostages still were believed to be in the house Friday morning.
• Police said gunmen fired indiscriminately from the Chabad House. Stray bullets killed a couple in their home and a 16-year-old boy who stepped outside, police said. Two women and a child escaped from the building Thursday, a government official says.
• At the hotels, hostages or people who were trapped left at various times Thursday and Friday. Commandos entered both hotels, trying to flush out militants and rescue others.
• By Friday 12:30 a.m. IT, one gunman remained in the Taj hotel, and two others remained at the Oberoi hotel, the director-general of the National Security Guards said. At 1 a.m., one gunman was killed at the Oberoi hotel, the official said. He said he couldn't say for sure how many gunmen were still at the Oberoi.
• An undetermined number of nonmilitants remained inside the hotels Friday morning, NSG director-general J.K. Dutt said. "There are some of them inside the rooms, and they are not prepared to open the doors," he said. "Probably they are fearing that it might not be an innocent."
• Fire brigades battled fires at both hotels. By early Friday, it appeared what had been a major fire at the Oberoi had been extinguished.
• By Friday morning, 125 had been killed in the attacks, including at least six foreigners, authorities said. An Italian and a Briton were among the confirmed dead. Another 327 people were wounded, including seven Britons, three Americans and two Australians.
• Authorities found 8 kilograms (17 pounds) of RDX, one of the most powerful kinds of military explosives, at a restaurant near the Taj, indicating that the attackers may have been planning more violence.
• The Indian navy, stepping up patrols on the country's western coast after the attack, was questioning the crew of the MV Alpha, a ship detained with the help of the Indian coast guard, British authorities said. The authorities said they believe the attackers' boats came from this ship, and that they believe the ship is from Karachi, Pakistan.
• Karachi police say they have no evidence the attackers departed from their city.
• Several Indian news outlets report a group called the Deccan Mujahideen e-mailed them to claim responsibility. Intelligence officials say little is known about the group. U.S. officials and security analysts say the sophistication of the attacks may indicate a more-established group is responsible.
• State media Press Trust of India, citing Union Cabinet Minister Kapil Sibal, reported the gunmen had worked for months to prepare, even setting up "control rooms" in the two luxury hotels that were targeted.
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Comment by Manashimaya Duttagupta on November 29, 2008 at 2:02pm -
I condemn all sorts of killings of innocent people. Terrorism is the harsh reality of the world today. We are with it all the time like a sword hanging over our head. We have to stop this blame game and work unitedly to wipe off terrorism. The word can be taken on a broader aspect. We have to fight with it on our home ground first, whether it is here or any where else and then across the globe. I think there is a terrorist everywhere moving freely within our own society, polluting the mind of people, with their actions, even holding a high rank in the office or posing as a leader and directly or indirectly killing men and women with their intended hidden actions.
Lets say........."We shall over come, we shall over come someday.....O deep in my heart I do believe, we shall over come some day". Lastly I would like to say "United we stand and divided we break."Therefore to stand unitedly we need to spread Love, Love, Love.
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Comment by Susan Connors on November 29, 2008 at 1:36pm
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We must all work toward building a world in which there is no religious, racial or political fanatacism for we are all at risk from terrorism and terrorist ideology. Support those in power who believe in peace.
I am so deeply saddened by the events in Mumbai and wish all of my friends around the world peace and safety.
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Comment by Stacey L Warner on November 29, 2008 at 1:35pm - Yes I think this a time where show people like the Dali lama that we are learning that peace is more powerful. Let us pray that love can change the hearts of these men and love will be the attitude of tomorrow.
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Comment by Chetana Pandya on November 29, 2008 at 1:20pm - We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. Let there be peace on earth
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Comment by Chetana Pandya on November 29, 2008 at 1:18pm
- Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.Anger is one letter short of danger. and that is why Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. Conclusion No Peace....If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
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Comment by Mari on November 29, 2008 at 12:47pm -
Irith, my Dear,
I LOVE YOU!
This is all.
Peace, my beloved Sister Irith,
Love,
Mari
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Comment by irith mashiah on November 29, 2008 at 12:23pm -
I saw the painting called : "Kill Osama". I do not think this is the solution. By killing him, you'll create 10 more like him! What I believe is he should be captured together with more of his followers, and tried in a court where the relatives of his victims will be the judges. The jurers will testify to how hard and painful it is to raise and breed a child. All the love and faith you invest in this child until you see him grown up and settled, and then, someone with hatred in his heart such as Osama comes and so cruelly goes on and demolishes all that you have invested through a life time...
I REFUSE to believe that the Islamic religion condones killing of innocent people the way the "religious" terrorists do!
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Comment by chitra patnaik on November 29, 2008 at 11:39am -
Dear Sambuddha,
Thanks for invieting for the disscussion on Violence and Terrorism.we have beenthis incident for many years in India.Not only in India but entire world.The world is facing this problem.The root cause is heatred in the heart.As an individual we have to have pitience and try to teach love .Only through love one can change it.But if required one has to be strong to remove the root cause.
Best Wishes
chitra patnaik
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Comment by Rebanta Goswami on November 29, 2008 at 11:28am -
Sambuddha, your detailed account of the Mumbai attack is very informative and your starting this discussion is appropriate for the time.
But please remember the Godhra and Nandigram with many more other incidents, where we could not stop our people to kill each other. Violence and fear is the key element. We condemn all killings of innocent folks.
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Comment by Mari on November 29, 2008 at 11:03am
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Now People,
Children of peace, I understand your anger.
What has happened is atrocious. Abominable. Inexcusable.
What are we to do? Group and re-group. En masse.
They cannot kill us all. They are few. WE ARE MANY.
WE WILL PREVAIL WITH LOVE, PEACE, CREATIVITY
In our hearts, SPIRITS and Bodies
EVERYONE
We shall we shall not be moved
We shall we shall not be moved
Do you hear me Sisters and Brothers?
We Shall NOT be moved.
LOVE, PEACE & CREATIVITY,
Your Humble Sister
Mari
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