Orkut mumbaikar reactions

Lots of discussions, rumors and worries poured over the biggest virtual place for Indians, Orkut.com after the terrorist attack on mumbai recently which took life of some 80 people including 3 top IPS officers of India and injured more than 200 people. Mumbai and India is under attack once again, since last night of Wednesday 26^th Nov. Till today morning things are not clear and over, still people are stucked in Taj and Oberoi hotels of Mumbai, India and military/commando operations are going on.

My country and countrymen have tears in their eyes and fear in their hearts, we certainly don’t fear of our lives but we care about our family, children, mother and sisters. I don’t need to say how much I am attached with my country and Mumbai where I passed my 7 golden years of life. I know the in and out of Mumbai, the spirit, the josh!, the love and care of people with each other despite of different caste, color and religion!

In this article I only intended one thing, to spread the message of orkut members who are involved in some most active communities related to India and Mumbai, How they reacted and what they discussed on this terror attack on Mumbai on 26^th november 2008?

I chose 2 top most communities of orkut and their discussions on Mumbai 26/11 attack. The community India and Bombay(Mumbai) which are one of the most active community and flooded with hundred and thousands of posts on one forum thread since last night about Terror attack on Mumbai.

Orkut Community Bombay: This is orkut’s one of the best and most active community for people in Mumbai or from Mumbai. With the strength of more than 35000 members, Bombay community was on all shock since the first news of attack came by the thread titled “Blast and Firing in Mumbai 26^th Nov”has started by one community member Koyote(name changed) and lots of replies started following within the minutes. Most of them were worried about the other members who live in Mumbai and their relatives and friends. Soon, the reactions started with the disappointment and harsh feeling against the state and central governments where some community members demanded the authority to step down from their posts and power if they can’t save people’s lives. One community member of Bombay community Dr. Hemant Mittal posted

“People its time to act” The Government. of the people,

by the people, for the people…has to help its people….
and we the common man! Have to wake up too..
Everyone be safe..
Please remember tomorrow morning is not just another day
It’s the day of Rising!!!!”

I succeeded in talking with Dr Hemant Mittal and ask his views and opinions on this tragic incident which shook the whole world which is fighting against terrorism from many years, Dr Mittal scrapped me “1. its an outright act of cowardice shown by these insignificant, illiterate, uncultured, inhuman people.
if defaming india is their motive, then why not do it at an international forum, where it will make a difference.
obviously they are trained, youth…probably pakistani help. which can be deduced from their face, cold blooded nature, voice…attitude..
obviously with good terror network in india…logistics for carrying out such an operations must have been amanzing…they shud have planned it months ahead…with rekki of every place..and every possible move.

hats off to the mumbai police. its simple to criticize the intelligence failure, and police action. But comendable efforts for a force of hardly a hand-ful people, who live under severe stress, lead lives as per ruling regime, and have to cater to 20million people. with just rudimentary equipment at their disposition, they have shown great human management, and alertness to keep the situation from flaring into an international show of gross incompetence and lethargic attitude by our govt.

we cannot expect much from the goverment. The present govt. has not only proved, but multiple times stamped its on developmentally challenged nature in controlling terrorist attacks. In the 5 yrs…apart from changing clothes the home minister does even have crocodile tears next to a saas-bahu soap opera actor.
democracy is all about a govt of the people and for the people, our ruling political parties either are illiterate and havent read this…or a paralytic attack has damaged their cognitive abilities to think….
as for the non-rullig parties…its easy to advocate measures…and easy to advocate rules/regulations to obey…easy to beat up people from regions not yours…but in time of need…where are they.. they have human chain of workers, logistics in term of space, money and brain power..use it to help the needy…show social responsibility…not just vote-begging responsibilty…

for the common man… he suffers…be him rich, poor or middle class..he takes the brunt. those who loose a relative know the pain. he who looses a limb knows the pain. he who commutes through those lanes knows the fear.. he who gets out of his house every morning knows the anxiety…
in 10days this wil become a great coffee table discussion, with the police nabbing some god-damn chap from some god-damn shaddy place… the common man will be sipping his coffee and animatedly discussiing the events to his peers…to forget it with the last sip he takes…
its time for him to wake up..lets start moving towards a better society.
those who can think, can come out with ideas…those who can work..can work upon those ideas…and all can reap the fruits of it.
we should leave excuses.

Another member, Koyote(name changed) started this thread was looking most shocked and inconsolable when he wrote that its time to declare war same like United states did after 9/11, he said that declare it against whoever did it and that’s the only solution, according to his opinion. One active member Avinash (name changed) who don’t belong to Mumbai but been there many times and love the city and its secularism, said in one of the reply”..Only place in India where I have seen Muslim Women entering Hindu Temple(Mahalakshmi temple) I was so happy seeing the secularism of Mumbai..Hope Mumbaikars don’t lose their cool over other religions during these times and don’t fall to the plans of these asses “

Avinash (name changed) replied to one community member whose opinion was based on latest released movie Wednesday and Rang de basanti.

“real life situations are not like what happens in Movies..The real fact is we can’t do anything as done in the movie like Wednesday or Raang de basanti..One thing we can do is not to let the fire inside us chill after things normalize…We got to do something for our country even if its a small things as respecting the rules or reporting suspicious acts or assisting the security forces during check ups and raids..”

“I know actions speak louder than words ..But by discussing in forums like this ,we can know more about the opinion of people from all walks and all castes and remove our misunderstandings..People who have downright hatred from their heart on people from other religion would also understand the feelings of other people..”

Added Avinash.

Till the end of the thread I monitored that was the last message “ Mumbai spirits will never die, thanks to our security forces, military and commandos and Mumbai Police for struggling hard to save lives of people.

Image by Times of India

Orkut community India: Only biggest and most active community has a big and interesting history is also one of the most busy and highly respected communities of orkut. Over 8 lakh orkut users are members of this community, they talk on each and every issue related to India and Indians. News of attack on Mumbai spread all over the globe like a jungle fire, India community on orkut is over flooded with nearly 4000 replies in less than 10 hours on a thread “Firing In Mumbai” The topic starter undoubtedly an active India community member was himself not sure of what’s going on after the first media news “Times Now” most of the members were totally unknown and have no clue about the tragedy which started in Mumbai last night.

Many of the community members thought that it’s a kind of gangwar going on in Mumbai but soon when media started the full coverage the story came in front of them that it is another and most horrified terrorist attack on India.

One India community member who wrote in the thread that he eye witnessed the blast, Till many replies and posts people of India community were not so sure about what’s going on in Mumbai because of rumors and different news on different news channels, but soon the picture got cleared and reactions started flowing straight from the heart, the pain, the anger and the sadness of young Indians who find themselves in a dark future where government and policies are nothing but a stage show and we citizens are stupid audience who trusted them and voted them to be our leaders.

Same like Bombay community members, India community members too support the way America fought against terrorism after 9/11 attack of twin tower. One community member replied to a post in such a manner “after the 9/11 incident… there is no single blast or any terrorism in america….

The case of America is different, here terrorists cannot carry out such terror attacks with strong local support!”

With the coming up state elections, congress party can loose its hope to win now, this was another opinion came from a community member after the attack on India’s commercial capital and bollywood hub Mumbai.

Till the last post on India community, people were updating latest news and information they could gather from tv and media resources and even those who are eye witnessed of everything.

Discussions on social networking sites and forums cannot solve the problem but it is a very helpful and strong way to put their own thoughts, opinions and can make more strong relation with each other, both India and Bombay community has members from all age, caste and religion and India is a multicolor, multi-religious and biggest democracy on earth. All we need is to be united in all ups and downs of our country and clean all the dust like dirty politicians and their ugly politics, our most respected and jealous neighbors and the word “terrorism” from the roots of it. Only together we can make a difference not by appointing one as our leader, so keep up the spirit and don’t let this fire of heart gets down.

I give my heartiest respect and condolence to ATS Chief Hemant Karkare , Vijay Saleskar and Ashok Tamte Add. commissioner who lost their lives fighting against the evils and all other police officers and citizens of India and other nationals who lost their lives. We orkutheroes.com with the team of authors and contributors condemn this attack and stand strong with our Nation, and our brothers and sisters.