Mumbai: Mumbai is being attacked with alarming regularity. Three friends Bharat, Piyush and Jignesh, have witnessed 2006, 2008, and 2011 attacks closely. And every time, seeing their city and loved ones fall victim to terror make them angry. "My shop is in front of the place where the bomb went off," said Bharat.
Still in shock over the attacks at Opera House that killed some of their acquaintances, the four are reminded of 26/11, when a taxi in front of them was blown up. In the 2006 train attacks, they lost a close friend.
"It does make you angry," said Jigneesh.
The fresh attacks have left many seething. Asif Tankia, owner of this curio store behind the Taj hotel, was livid at the government's inability to control terror.
"They install barricades everywhere, but if they have no intelligence on what is going to happen time and again, it just means they have no intelligence at all," said Asif Tankia, a south Mumbai resident.
Though Mumbai collectively feels angry, helpless and unsafe, the city crawls back to life, and perhaps, now, it faces terror with frightening familiarity.
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