The 2008 Mumbai attacks were a group of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai. The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday, 26 November and lasted until Saturday, 29 November 2008, killing 164 people and wounding at least 308.
The Indian Express in partnership with Facebook organized an event in Mumbai to remember those who lost their lives in the 26/11 attacks, in which Amitabh Bachchan addressed the audience to remember those who lost their lives in the 26/11 attacks and to host the survivors of the audacious attacks that jolted the maximum city in 2008.
Remembering the ‘Stories of Strength’ of 26/11, Mr. Bachchan said, Terror, to be prevented before germinating, must be rooted out.
The legendary actor believes that it is high time we find a corrective measure to get rid of terrorism by uprooting it. “Terror does not preserve anything, it is designed to destroy Once unleashed, terror cannot be stopped by a debate An act of terror, therefore, is not open to negotiations or to wisdom. It can only be repelled, repulsed and destroyed by a more powerful reaction There are no two ways about that: a corrective action is necessary.But that does not end there When a farm is infested by weeds, a weed-killer does not hold them from growing again after the next rain. The farmer has to pull them out one by one, every single weed, by its roots.”
The actor said that terrorism is present in the whole world, and we have to work for its eviction, he added, “Terror, to be prevented before germinating, must be rooted out. We know that the war on terror worldwide has not eliminated the root cause of terrorism so far. And it doesn’t look likely if the same method is expected to give different results.”
Amitabh also recited a poem ‘Imprints Of Blood Or Blood Stains’ By Harivansh Rai Bachchan by the end of his speak in remembrance to him, and to so many others this day, this week, before and beyond.
Today is Harivansh Rai Srivastava alias Bachchan’s birth anniversary. He was born on 27th november 1907 and was a noted Indian poet of the Nayi Kavita literary movement (romantic upsurge) of early 20th century Hindi literature. Born in a Hindu Awadhi Indian Srivastava Kayastha family, in Allahabad in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, in British India, he was also a famous poet of the Hindi Kavi Sammelan. He is best known for his early work Madhushala.
Amitabh Bachchan’s upcoming film project is ‘102 Not Out’ in which he features as a 102-year-old father and Rishi Kapoor plays his 75-year-old son. The film is directed by Umesh Shukla, is based on a Gujarati play of the same name, written by Saumya Joshi.
He will also appear in ‘Thug of Hindustan’ directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya costarring, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Shashank Arora and Jackie Shroff.
