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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 Frank Shifreen on November 29, 2008 at 1:15am -
Dear Sam and everybody
It took me years to get over Sept. 11th. I could see the towers from my house and went to help out that day. I went through a deep depression afterwards, and that is what the terrorists expect. I am also an I have been glued to the telly, for the last two days, and it has upset me to see the trauma of the people of Mumbai, and clockwork Orange- ultraviolence that injects insanity into social discourse. Everyone who wants peace on earth and innocents to be protected is disturbed by these actions.
This is why art is essential. Why is art so important? The opposite of war is not exactly peace, which is a negation of activity, but the opposite in my view is the idea of art, any art. It is an expression of our sensual nature. Sensual is life affirming and life generating.
I have never been to Mumbai, although I had a show there during Social Forum IV in 2004. I want to go and see it. Many Indians have called this the 9/11 of India. My heart goes out to all who have been harmed, and condolences to all. Let us organize more, further, love each other, make art, create dialog. Art shows are the antidote to this kind of terror
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Comment by Dev Udaiyan on November 29, 2008 at 1:06am -
Hi, thanks for inviting me to this group Sambuddha. I feel really depressed at the moment. I was painting a portrait of my parents - but that has stopped. i literally feel sick to my stomach and have been in bed all day listening to the world service. Hmm... i emailed my friends in Mumbai and they were ok :)
As a hindu and a sufi - what i don't want to happen is scapegoating and retaliation. We all need to love each other unconditionally to be truely human.
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Comment by Alan Montgomery on November 29, 2008 at 12:18am - The title of this painting is "Ceasefire postcard from home". It is really a comment regarding my position to a history of repression and violence in my home country. Terrorism is always an option for those who perceive themselves as marginalized. It is not tolerable and is a failure of human kind to move toward our better angels.
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Comment by ronald belanger AOCA on November 29, 2008 at 12:12am -
terrorism is a schizophenic vengeance blood thirsty criminals
killers auto destrutors diabolic acts
desperate minds
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Comment by Alan Montgomery on November 29, 2008 at 12:06am
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Comment by Mustafa on November 29, 2008 at 12:04am - hello Sam, i am very sad, i hate violence and all wars...
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Comment by Sahyra Sultan on November 29, 2008 at 12:02am -
The horrible event unfolding in Mumbai has numbed, shocked, horrified, angered, enraged, and saddened most of us, around the world. The strength and courage combined with the resiliency to survive, that Indians have always demonstrated in the face of past adversity, will help them again, to cope with this horrific incident. For all of us this period should be the time of self reflection, a moment to count blessings, to be with and appreciate loved ones, to be kinder to each other, to reach out to those in need, and to honor the strength of the human spirit in the face of adversity. May God give strength to those who have lost their loved ones.
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Comment by Alan Montgomery on November 28, 2008 at 11:56pm
- I grew up in Northern Ireland during the violent years there. My email is really my own observations of how terrorist gunmen are almost always young men and why?
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Comment by irith mashiah on November 28, 2008 at 11:52pm - What can I say!?!? I am living on top of a volcano myself. If we taught our children to be tolerant and respectful to other people, they would grow up knowing they have to build and not destroly, love and not hate. These words have been chewed over again and again Will the people ever learn? I wonder.
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