2. The city never sleeps, but it takes breaks. After a hard day’s work one doesn’t go home to bed, you go to café, a knock back a pint or two of chilled beer, chat with the backpackers, walk the streets and bite into steamy kebabs somewhere on the half a lit lane behind the Taj. Those with deep pockets walk into the luxury hotel for a drink & a fine meal. Those with nothing in their pockets can at least stand on Marine drive, smell the breeze blowing off the sea and hear the waves crash on the huge boulders along the Queen’s Necklace And then, it’s November 26 and all of a sudden the script changes…..
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27. Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan NSG Commando Rajbir Singh Lamba NSG Captain Amitendra Kumar Singh Marine commandos (Marcos) Volunteers of Gurudwara Shri Dashmesh Darbar Sion (On Thursday & Friday volunteers supplied 500 packets of food & water to forces at oberoi & Taj, for breakfast, for lunch & dinner they provided 1000 packets of puri bhajji.) NSG, ATS, MARCOS COMMANDOS HATS OFF TO
28. Joint police commissioner (ATS) Hemant karkare Additional police commissioner (Mumbai- Eastern region) Ashok Kamthe Senior inspector (anti extortion & anti dacoit squads) Vijay Salaskar Police sub inspector Prakash More from L T Marg police station Police sub inspector Bapurao Durgunde From the ATS Assistant sub inspector Tukaram Ombale from the D B marg police station Assistant inspector N C Bhosale Constable A R Chitte Constable Vijay Khandekar Constable Yogesh Patil Constable Jaywant Patil Constable Ambadas Pawar Constable Balwant Bhosale Railway police: Inspector Shashank Shinde Constable M C Chaudhary Assistant Chief ticketing inspector, CR- S K Sharma saved the life of a girl at CST. MUMBAI POLICE
29. Announcer, CR- V K Zende saved the life of many people by making continuous alert on the public announcement system. Pankaj Goel (Owner of Refresh Hotel at CST) informed the police control room about the grenade. Mohammed Sheikh alias Chotu, a tea seller at CST station saved the life of few people. Oberoi Chef Emanuele Lattanzi saved guests & family. Trainee chef Sadanand Ratan Patil died bravely while escorting few foreign tourists. Dr Tilu Mangeshkar & her husband Dr Prashant saving the life of a staff of Taj. Mumbai could be the turning point towards reconstruction & consolidation if we place national security above partisan considerations. If we don’t, the country could sink into an abyss of violence & disorder.