26/11

It has been 15 years since the 26/11 terrorist attack took place in Bombay. Every year we keep remembering the martyrs, the victims and the enormous sadness that the deadly incident had imposed on the country.

There are so many things left unanswered even to this day. Let me try to list them as to what they are :-

  

  1. What are the investigating agencies doing regarding the solving of the entire terror attack? 

  2. Who was the mastermind behind it? 

  3. When and where was the script of the attack planned?

  4. Why were the decision-making bureaucrats of the Home Ministry in the hill station of Murree in

      Pakistan when the attack was on?

  5. Why was Kasab - the terrorist caught live - with a Hindu identity? Identifying documents and           

      saffron threads around his wrist et all!

  6. Why was Barkha Datt allowed to cover the ghastly events taking place within the Taj Mahal Hotel

      live, especially after it has now been established that the Pakistanis knew the exact positions and

      numbers of commandos, security forces in the innards of the hotel?

  7. Why was Barkha Datt given unrestricted access to our forward posts at Kargil by which the exact

      positions of our gallant soldiers were compromised? To cite an example, Captain Vikram Batra, the

      hero of Tololing Point was killed by enemy attack within 24 hrs of his interview with the journalist

      in his bunker? (The positions were passed on through the satellite telephones to the masters who

      had, then, passed on the information to their minions on the ground).

  8. Why hasn't P Chidambaram, the Home Minister at that time, not issued a complete information 

      regarding the whole affair?  

  9. Why hasn't the journalist, Barkha Datt, been taken up for interrogation for her lapses?

Here are just a few that I can think of. I'm sure there must be many more that might have slipped my mind.

My salutes to the brave hearts, tears and prayers!

My take

The investigation needs a closure, the details of the findings be brought to the public and the culprits be brought to book, forthwith. Enough of dithering has taken place till now!

Tailpiece.

Got up at a trifle before 6, the chores and was ready by a half past 9.

A quiet Sunday.

Was registered in the Indian Oil - Adani piped gas distribution system that's gonna come in this neighbourhood over the next six months.