The dreadful night of 26/11 has been etched in the memories of Mumbaikars. However, a person's real ability is tested only during adversity. From a girl who was shot on her leg to a nurse who saved the lives of 20 pregnant women in Cama Hospital, here are some heart-wrenching stories of the survivors.
Humans of Bombay shared a post of Devika Rotawan who was just 10-years old when she was shot on her leg at CSMT Station:
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As stated in The Indian Express, Anjali Kulthe, a nurse in Cama Hospital had saved the lives of 20 pregnant woman.
On the night of 26/11, Anjali Kulthe had charge of 20 women, all due to deliver babies, a couple of them already going into labour. So when the staff nurse at Cama and Albless Hospital saw two guards were shot dead at the entrance to the hospital, she raced to close the heavy double doors of the ante-natal care ward, slamming them shut just as two gunmen sprinted up to the first-floor landing.
From 8 pm until 8 am, Kulthe kept the 20 women and some of their family members calm in a tiny pantry space at the far end of the ward. For nearly an hour, the terrorists exchanged fire from the terrace landing with a poorly equipped police team below, the building shuddering with every grenade explosion.
Anjali emerged once from their hiding place, to escort a hypertensive woman in labour to the delivery room, one floor up. “Holding the patient’s hand, I walked up along the stairway wall, my mind only on the unborn baby’s safety,” she says. Now 50, she has a deep pride in having saved lives. Her son wants to join the armed forces, a decision she wholeheartedly supports.
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Twitteratis including Smriti Irani, Ratan Tata and Barkha Dutt too paid their tribute to the martyrs of 26/11:
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People even took to Reddit to share their horrifying experience, here are some of it:
I remember how all the reporters were lying on the street with their heads covered and all the camera set up.
My house was near Taj Hotel and the noise of the bullets being fired from both the ends were deafening. I still cannot get over the trauma and being house-arrest for such a long time. Even after everything was calmed down, I feared to go to the markets as well. -Vanessa D'Souza
One of my close friends was at Oberoi and the air condition was shut off. He had to put a wet towel below the opening of the door to block the smoke from coming in. He tried to break the window from a chair but was unsuccessful. After more than 24 gruelling hours, he heard a knock on his door and it was one of the commandos who had come to rescue him.