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The Mumbai terror attacks, that targetted the Taj Mahal Hotel and The Trident (Oberoi), have shattered the city. The death toll is now estimated to rise above 200.
Top corporate executives from India and abroad were trapped in the attacks. While many escaped from the death trap, some of the city top businessmen succumbed to the attacks. . . A dinner at the city`s famous restaurants cost them their lives. . .
Ashok Kapur
Yes Bank`s non-executive chairman and co-promoter Ashok Kapur had gone for dinner at the Kandahar Restaurant in Hotel Oberoi with his wife Madhu. His wife was rescued from the hotel.
Kapur owned a 34 per cent stake in Yes Bank along with the bank`s MD and CEO Rana Kapoor.
Kapur has been in the industry since 1962 and has worked with Grindlays Bank, ABN Amro Bank. He was also the first Asian to be appointed country manager of ABN Amro Bank, India. Before joining Yes Bank, Kapur was the managing director of Rabo India.
Andreas Liveras
Cruise ship tycoon Andreas Liveras, 73, met his end at the Taj Mahal Hotel.
A self-made millionaire, he was known as one of Britain`s most successful entrepreneurs. He spoke to the BBC on the attacks from the hotel, "As soon as we sat at the table we heard the machine gun fire outside in the corridor." He then said that he was hiding under the table and was taken to the salon in the hotel there were hundreds of other guests.
"All we know is the bombs are next door and the hotel is shaking every time a bomb goes off. Everybody is just living on their nerves," he said. He had come to Mumbai to attend a boat show.
Ajit Chabbria
Hotelier Ajit Chabbria (42) and his 35-year-old wife Monica Chabbria were also killed at Trident (Oberoi).
Sunil Parekh, a businessman associated with the shipping industry, and his wife Reshma, were also among those killed at Tiffin, the coffee shop at Trident (Oberoi) Hotel.
Pankaj Shah
Pankaj Shah was the owner of real estate company, Satellite Group. Shah was killed at the Oberoi Hotel when terrorists fired indiscrimately at the diners at the hotel.
Shah was having dinner with another developer, Apoorva Parekh, at the Kandahar restaurant in the hotel. Parekh survived, but has sustained several bullet wounds.
Kanubhai Patel
Kanubhai Patel, head of Bipico Industries, died in the terror attack at the Oberoi Hotel.
A businessman, he was only 16 years old when he took over the reins of his family`s timber business.
Today, Bipico has grown into a major cutting tools manufacturer and exporter with a strong brand image in India and overseas.
Rediff.........
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Syed Mansoor Hussain who has practised and taught medicine in the US has written a column in Karachi based Daily Times. The Gist of the column is given below:
The first India-Pakistan war over Kashmir was a misadventure, especially how a war was changed into a looting expedition with the injection of tribesmen from the Frontier, forcing the local Kashmiris to decide that they were better off with India.
Few in Pakistan today wish to remember, or are even taught in their schools, that a Hindu fanatic assassinated Gandhi for demanding that Pakistan be paid its share of the Indian money. Gandhi went on a fast unto death, which he stopped only after India paid Pakistan a sum of 55 crore rupees, serious money then.
The assassination of Gandhi and the death of Jinnah were two calamities that made things worse. The Nehru-Liaquat pact tried to restore some sense of balance but the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan brought that to an end. From that day onwards, Pakistani foreign and security policy has been aimed at only one thing, and that is being anti-India.
It is clear that Pakistan has not been successful in the past to wrest any part of Kashmir from India and is unlikely to be in a position to do so in the foreseeable future. As far as India is concerned, it has no desire to conquer Pakistan or any part of it. India might not mind taking over Azad (Pakistan-administered) Kashmir, but under present international conditions it is unlikely to even try to do that. Towards the end of the Indo-Pakistan war in 1971, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi wanted the Indian army to take over Azad Kashmir, but the word is that US President Richard Nixon called up Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and asked him to tell Gandhi that the US would not let that happen. This is perhaps the real tilt by Nixon towards Pakistan at that time that the Indians are still miffed about.
As far as the territorial integrity of present day Pakistan is concerned, a dysfunctional and dismembered Pakistan would afford serious security concerns for India, not only in terms of terrorism but possible mass migrations to India. I cannot imagine India at this stage of its economic development wanting to be swamped by economic immigrants from the west that inflate its Muslim minority and further radicalise their Islamic ideology.
The second demand of many Pakistanis is that the world should treat India and Pakistan as equals. This is preposterous. India today is a country six times bigger than Pakistan in terms of population. In terms of its economic status, it is not even comparable to Pakistan. India has just sent an unmanned spacecraft to the moon while Pakistanis are going around hat in hand looking for money to cover their current account deficit.
The third thing that worries many in Pakistan is the dominance of Indian culture in Pakistan. Those that demand that we in Pakistan should separate ourselves from the Indian sphere of cultural influence should just talk to their children and the young in this country. Bollywood and its stars what are what young know about and emulate.
And that brings me to the most important thing that must make Indians and Pakistanis come together as a part of the same world. The Mumbai terrorist attacks tell us one very important thing: We in India and Pakistan live together and we die together. We have the same enemies, and if as countries we could be friends, we will do better, nuclear arsenals notwithstanding.
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Seizing The Wall Street Journal for his News Corp media empire would be an audacious master stroke for Rupert Murdoch -- unless he tops it by trying to buy The New York Times Co.
This is what `Vanity Fair` columnist and newly minted Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff thinks the 77-year-old media mogul will do, regardless of sound business strategy, investors and US Government rules about who can own what.
"He really contemplates how he can get The New York Times," said Wolff, author of "The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch."
Source : Indian Express...
Mumbaikars speak up against terror
Hundreds gather at Gateway to pay tributes.
People lit candles, paid floral tributes and spoke their feelings in as many words through the placards they were holding.
Mumbai, Nov 30 “When will this carnage stop? We want an answer” “What is the Government’s action plan?” “Mr Politician, do you think this is a small thing?” were some of the placards held by the citizens of Mumbai who gathered at the Gateway of India on Sunday morning.
The venue in front of the terror-ravaged Taj Mahal Hotel, which witnessed the anxious wait by the media and public while the encounter and rescue operations were going on, turned out to be a platform for the residents of Mumbai to demonstrate their sympathy, anger, frustration and national solidarity.
Tribute to the dead
They protested against the security lapses that led to the terrorists’ infiltration, they vented their frustration against the lack of political will to combat terror, they paid homage to the commandos and police who laid down their lives, and they paid tributes to all who lost their lives to terror.
Hundreds gathered at the Gate Way of India and Marine Drive in white clothes and with black band on their right arm. They lit candles, paid floral tributes and spoke their feelings in as many words through the placards they were holding. “We organised among ourselves through phone calls and SMS,” said Mr Amit Jain, a 20-year old Colaba resident.
“I have been living here for 35 years. Taj is like second home for us. I had breakfast here on the day of terror attack. I know every waiter here,” said Mr Jagdeep Saxena, another local resident. His business associate, the London-based Sir Gulam Noon was trapped inside the Taj, but was lucky to escape the tragedy.
Not only the residents in the immediate neighbourhood who gathered in Colaba and Marine Drive (where The Trident-Oberoi stands), but also people from far-flung suburbs including Borivli and Thane came to South Mumbai on Sunday to pay homage to the terror-victims. “I came on my own, thinking if they would allow I would light a candle. I did,” said Ms Vijayalaxmi who came from Thane.
Brickbats to lapses
Public put up questions through placards which read – “When will we wake up?” and advised the political class “Please do not politicise this”. “Mumbai - Mighty Undefeated Mumbaikars Being brave Against Intolerance”, proclaimed one poster. Another placard seemed to have found immediate resonance in the corridors of power – “Send back home the Home Minister”.
Manu P. Toms
BUSINESSLINE
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Sabina Saikia’s death numbs media fraternity
New Delhi: Shantanu Saikia had been dreading this moment. But it came to him nevertheless, just as it did to hundreds others who lost their dear ones to the dastardly terror attacks in Mumbai. Missing since three days, the body of Shantanu’s better half Sabina Sehgal Saikia was today brought out after the NSG cleared the heritage Taj Hotel of terrorists.
Back home in Delhi, Sabina’s death came as a shocker, leaving her friends, family and the capital’s arts community deeply saddened and numbed. Of particular reference here is the flutter her death caused at SAHMAT - the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, of which she was among the most dedicated members. Ironical it seems that a woman who stood by communal harmony and secularism all her life finally went down to terrorists’ bullets.
Numbing as the experience is, the SAHMAT family today came out in the open to remember Sabina as the driving force and inspiration behind the “Artists against Communalism” events in Delhi in 1991 and later at Shivaji Park in Mumbai in 1992.
Sabina’s history tells us of how she travelled with the SAHMAT family to cities where the Anhad Garje - SAHMAT’s Sufi-Bhakti programme - was held in the immediate aftermath of the Babri Masjid Demolition in January, March 1993.
And then she was part of the Mukt-Naad in Ayodhya in 1993 held under very difficult circumstances. Mukt Naad was another event where some of the greatest classical musicians and dancers of India performed in defence of the country’s secular traditions, almost all under Sabina’s initiative.
One of the SAHMAT’s members today said, “None could refuse Sabina; she was such a beloved enthusiast of all these artists.” An acclaimed journalist and a food critic, Sabina was also the founder secretary of Spic Macay and learnt classical music with the doyens of dhrupad form of classical music - Ustads Zahiruddin Dagar and Faiyazuddin Dagar.
As a journalist later, she remained involved with the arts initiatives of her media organisation only to be led to the gourmet section later.
But with Sabina’s killing being confirmed today, all that has become history. She had gone to Mumbai to attend a wedding in a colleague’s family, but never returned. The last her husband heard from her was through an SMS, sent late on Thursday night.
“In her last SMS, she sounded very worried,” Shantanu had earlier said. About 20 minutes before that, hotel employees had received her SMS which said: “They (the terrorists) are in my bathroom`.”
The NSG commandos, who sanitised the Taj after the Operation Tornado today, confirmed the news of Sabina’s death.
Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
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No Raj,
NDTV, TIMES NOW, HEADLINES TODAY have all critcized the politicians so much that MAYWATI has forgotten who she is...watch how the illiterates will take the lead.. after all they are watching the local news all the time even the local media channels condemnded the politicians... a revolution has begun where the politician will become more accountable and will know that its not all hunky dory being a politician he would be better off being a bollywood hero....
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Why not dear RN?
I mean every word of it.. Did you watch the NRI trapped in Taj... Had not eaten for almost 26 hours, and not slept. He agreed to speak to the media, and felt sick while talking. He asked for a break at least on 4 occasions... but the insensitive media just kept on with the interview.
There were numerous such incidents... Running after people who havent even had the time to collect their wits after being released from the trauma of being trapped, an eternal wait that could end with death, and did for so many.
Did you not watch the commercials during the broadcasts? That is what commercialisation of tragedy is all about... Have you not seen scores of mediaperson broadcast a person committing suicide ever? Making no attempt to stop it, as then there will be no news... This is crass commercialization of what used to be a noble profession...
Did you not overhear casual remarks made by one of the mediapersons from NDTV when he was not aware he is on air?
Is the media so naive that they didnt know the strategic importance of not revealing NSG`s moves to the world at large? Only repeated requests from the administration and the forces made them stop it, and that too for a very short time... The interim attempts are also revealing --- focusing the camera on the mediaperson, but making sure the hot spots are in the frame just behind the mediaperson.
They were all competing against each other, as they always do - to be the first ones to sensationalise any bit of news they can lay their hands on... How united they are indeed!
The way the tv media behaves is like prostitutes of the lowest order - pandering to the unbridled passionate desires of their consumers - and going to any length to do it... No dignity, nor integrity!
And just wait for a couple of days, and see how much coverage all the politicians will get.. coz these events will be the past, and election results are what will sell... Already there are ads on some channels... so much for the campaign against politicians...
My apologies if this does not go down well with you, but to me this is the truth.
Regards
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Why not dear RN?
I mean every word of it.. Did you watch the NRI trapped in Taj... Had not eaten for almost 26 hours, and not slept. He agreed to speak to the media, and felt sick while talking. He asked for a break at least on 4 occasions... but the insensitive media just kept on with the interview.
There were numerous such incidents... Running after people who havent even had the time to collect their wits after being released from the trauma of being trapped, an eternal wait that could end with death, and did for so many.
Did you not watch the commercials during the broadcasts? That is what commercialisation of tragedy is all about... Have you not seen scores of mediaperson broadcast a person committing suicide ever? Making no attempt to stop it, as then there will be no news... This is crass commercialization of what used to be a noble profession...
Did you not overhear casual remarks made by one of the mediapersons from NDTV when he was not aware he is on air?
Is the media so naive that they didnt know the strategic importance of not revealing NSG`s moves to the world at large? Only repeated requests from the administration and the forces made them stop it, and that too for a very short time... The interim attempts are also revealing --- focusing the camera on the mediaperson, but making sure the hot spots are in the frame just behind the mediaperson.
They were all competing against each other, as they always do - to be the first ones to sensationalise any bit of news they can lay their hands on... How united they are indeed!
The way the tv media behaves is like prostitutes of the lowest order - pandering to the unbridled passionate desires of their consumers - and going to any length to do it... No dignity, nor integrity!
And just wait for a couple of days, and see how much coverage all the politicians will get.. coz these events will be the past, and election results are what will sell... Already there are ads on some channels... so much for the campaign against politicians...
My apologies if this does not go down well with you, but to me this is the truth.
Regards...
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Thats not a fair comment to make Raj, you know that!
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Thats not a fair comment to make Raj, you know that!...
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I think all the media channels are highly irresponsible...
They displayed utter lack of sensitivity towards the forces by broadcasting the preparation and the operations live.
They started harassing people who were trapped in the hotels as soon as they manage to get released, without even giving them time to breathe free air.
They showed commercials while the operations were on.
They are now capitalising on the emotions of the masses by taking up this "cause" against politicians.
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Not tuck shirt out how can tuck and out go togehter. of course i mean who wear their shirts like a ladies top...
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Women should not vote for Politicians who tuck their shirts out if they are wearing pants.. If they are wearing the NETA dress they should promise to be as genuine as Lal bahadur Shastri and Nehur else they cannot fool us with Neta attire.
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Women should not vote for Politicians who tuck their shirts out if they are wearing pants.. If they are wearing the NETA dress they should promise to be as genuine as Lal bahadur Shastri and Nehur else they cannot fool us with Neta attire....
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Aside from responsible reporting, the media channels stood united in not giving any footage or visiblity to politicians in the past three days. Kudos to them.
Not Bangalore, not Delhi, its Mumbai thats leading this campaign to tell the politicians off. To tell them they have by far done ABSOLUTELY NEXT TO NOTHING for India. Shortly we will see Jean clad politicians with passion for adminstritation without beliefs in reservations holding high profile portfolios.
May the ERA begin!!
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I think all the media channels are highly irresponsible...
They displayed utter lack of sensitivity towards the forces by broadcasting the preparation and the operations live.
They started harassing people who were trapped in the hotels as soon as they manage to get released, without even giving them time to breathe free air.
They showed commercials while the operations were on.
They are now capitalising on the emotions of the masses by taking up this "cause" against politicians.
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Kudos to all Medial Channels
Posted by : radhika_nandlal
Aside from responsible reporting, the media channels stood united in not giving any footage or visiblity to politicians in the past three days. Kudos to them.
Not Bangalore, not Delhi, its Mumbai thats leading this campaign to tell the politicians off. To tell them they have by far done ABSOLUTELY NEXT TO NOTHING for India. Shortly we will see Jean clad politicians with passion for adminstritation without beliefs in reservations holding high profile portfolios.
May the ERA begin!!
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Aside from responsible reporting, the media channels stood united in not giving any footage or visiblity to politicians in the past three days. Kudos to them.
Not Bangalore, not Delhi, its Mumbai thats leading this campaign to tell the politicians off. To tell them they have by far done ABSOLUTELY NEXT TO NOTHING for India. Shortly we will see Jean clad politicians with passion for adminstritation without beliefs in reservations holding high profile portfolios.
May the ERA begin!!...
New Delhi(PTI): Sabina Sehgal Saikia, a senior journalist with The Times of India, was today found dead inside the Taj hotel after the NSG cleared the building of terrorists.
“Unfortunately she is dead. Her body was recovered this morning from the hotel,” Vikas Singh, resident editor (Delhi) of the newspaper, said.
Sabina, 45, was trapped inside the hotel when terrorists struck on Wednesday.
Consulting editor and resident food critic with the newspaper, she was in Mumbai for a wedding reception but returned early from the function complaining of fatigue.
She is survived by her husband and two children.
PAY YOUR TRIBUTES.
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Mumbai terror: Celebrated Indian journalist killed
MUMBAI: It is a sad duty one performs, but rarely, of reporting on the death of a colleague, more so if it is sudden and violent.
Sabina Sehgal Saikia, Times of India’s New Delhi-based consulting editor and food critic, was declared dead on Saturday, being a victim of the terror attack on the Taj Mahal hotel here.
Bold, bubbly and beautiful, Sabina had a fourth “B” tagged to her personality — a Bindi or a big red dot on her big forehead, the mark of a Hindu married woman.
She had come to Mumbai to attend the wedding of the son of her colleague, Bachi Karkaria, another celebrity Times of India journalist and columnist, a day earlier and was staying at the Taj.
Close to tears, Bachi told TV channels of the personal grief she suffered, which hurt more since Sabina had come especially to be part of the wedding celebrations.
Sabina was on the sixth floor of the Taj that was totally gutted during the 60-hour siege of the hotel that lasted till yesterday afternoon.
Sabina was Delhi’s bestknown food critic. Hoteliers and restaurateurs dreaded her verdict as that could make or mar them in the market.
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Mumbai terror: Celebrated Indian journalist killed
MUMBAI: It is a sad duty one performs, but rarely, of reporting on the death of a colleague, more so if it is sudden and violent.
Sabina Sehgal Saikia, Times of India’s New Delhi-based consulting editor and food critic, was declared dead on Saturday, being a victim of the terror attack on the Taj Mahal hotel here.
Bold, bubbly and beautiful, Sabina had a fourth “B” tagged to her personality — a Bindi or a big red dot on her big forehead, the mark of a Hindu married woman.
She had come to Mumbai to attend the wedding of the son of her colleague, Bachi Karkaria, another celebrity Times of India journalist and columnist, a day earlier and was staying at the Taj.
Close to tears, Bachi told TV channels of the personal grief she suffered, which hurt more since Sabina had come especially to be part of the wedding celebrations.
Sabina was on the sixth floor of the Taj that was totally gutted during the 60-hour siege of the hotel that lasted till yesterday afternoon.
Sabina was Delhi’s bestknown food critic. Hoteliers and restaurateurs dreaded her verdict as that could make or mar them in the market.
THE NEW STRAITS TIMES
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Sabina Saikia’s death numbs media fraternity
New Delhi: Shantanu Saikia had been dreading this moment. But it came to him nevertheless, just as it did to hundreds others who lost their dear ones to the dastardly terror attacks in Mumbai. Missing since three days, the body of Shantanu’s better half Sabina Sehgal Saikia was today brought out after the NSG cleared the heritage Taj Hotel of terrorists.
Back home in Delhi, Sabina’s death came as a shocker, leaving her friends, family and the capital’s arts community deeply saddened and numbed. Of particular reference here is the flutter her death caused at SAHMAT - the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, of which she was among the most dedicated members. Ironical it seems that a woman who stood by communal harmony and secularism all her life finally went down to terrorists’ bullets.
Numbing as the experience is, the SAHMAT family today came out in the open to remember Sabina as the driving force and inspiration behind the “Artists against Communalism” events in Delhi in 1991 and later at Shivaji Park in Mumbai in 1992.
Sabina’s history tells us of how she travelled with the SAHMAT family to cities where the Anhad Garje - SAHMAT’s Sufi-Bhakti programme - was held in the immediate aftermath of the Babri Masjid Demolition in January, March 1993.
And then she was part of the Mukt-Naad in Ayodhya in 1993 held under very difficult circumstances. Mukt Naad was another event where some of the greatest classical musicians and dancers of India performed in defence of the country’s secular traditions, almost all under Sabina’s initiative.
One of the SAHMAT’s members today said, “None could refuse Sabina; she was such a beloved enthusiast of all these artists.” An acclaimed journalist and a food critic, Sabina was also the founder secretary of Spic Macay and learnt classical music with the doyens of dhrupad form of classical music - Ustads Zahiruddin Dagar and Faiyazuddin Dagar.
As a journalist later, she remained involved with the arts initiatives of her media organisation only to be led to the gourmet section later.
But with Sabina’s killing being confirmed today, all that has become history. She had gone to Mumbai to attend a wedding in a colleague’s family, but never returned. The last her husband heard from her was through an SMS, sent late on Thursday night.
“In her last SMS, she sounded very worried,” Shantanu had earlier said. About 20 minutes before that, hotel employees had received her SMS which said: “They (the terrorists) are in my bathroom`.”
The NSG commandos, who sanitised the Taj after the Operation Tornado today, confirmed the news of Sabina’s death.
Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
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Sabina Saikia’s death numbs media fraternity
New Delhi: Shantanu Saikia had been dreading this moment. But it came to him nevertheless, just as it did to hundreds others who lost their dear ones to the dastardly terror attacks in Mumbai. Missing since three days, the body of Shantanu’s better half Sabina Sehgal Saikia was today brought out after the NSG cleared the heritage Taj Hotel of terrorists.
Back home in Delhi, Sabina’s death came as a shocker, leaving her friends, family and the capital’s arts community deeply saddened and numbed. Of particular reference here is the flutter her death caused at SAHMAT - the Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust, of which she was among the most dedicated members. Ironical it seems that a woman who stood by communal harmony and secularism all her life finally went down to terrorists’ bullets.
Numbing as the experience is, the SAHMAT family today came out in the open to remember Sabina as the driving force and inspiration behind the “Artists against Communalism” events in Delhi in 1991 and later at Shivaji Park in Mumbai in 1992.
Sabina’s history tells us of how she travelled with the SAHMAT family to cities where the Anhad Garje - SAHMAT’s Sufi-Bhakti programme - was held in the immediate aftermath of the Babri Masjid Demolition in January, March 1993.
And then she was part of the Mukt-Naad in Ayodhya in 1993 held under very difficult circumstances. Mukt Naad was another event where some of the greatest classical musicians and dancers of India performed in defence of the country’s secular traditions, almost all under Sabina’s initiative.
One of the SAHMAT’s members today said, “None could refuse Sabina; she was such a beloved enthusiast of all these artists.” An acclaimed journalist and a food critic, Sabina was also the founder secretary of Spic Macay and learnt classical music with the doyens of dhrupad form of classical music - Ustads Zahiruddin Dagar and Faiyazuddin Dagar.
As a journalist later, she remained involved with the arts initiatives of her media organisation only to be led to the gourmet section later.
But with Sabina’s killing being confirmed today, all that has become history. She had gone to Mumbai to attend a wedding in a colleague’s family, but never returned. The last her husband heard from her was through an SMS, sent late on Thursday night.
“In her last SMS, she sounded very worried,” Shantanu had earlier said. About 20 minutes before that, hotel employees had received her SMS which said: “They (the terrorists) are in my bathroom`.”
The NSG commandos, who sanitised the Taj after the Operation Tornado today, confirmed the news of Sabina’s death.
Aditi Tandon
Tribune News Service
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It`s So Hard to Say Goodbye, Sabina !!!!!
It was a standing joke between us. Arindam Sengupta, then resident editor of this paper (now executive editor, The Times of India) and I would go for lunch together, jabbering away nineteen to the dozen. Till Sabina walked into the room! Arindam would then promptly ditch me for Sabina. How could he not? Sabina was everything I am not. Hearty, vivacious, with the loudest guffaw I`ve heard. She filled the room; it was impossible to ignore her!
And she loved food. Better than that, she understood food and was passionate about it. In short she was the ideal companion for lunch. Especially since she combined her incredible knowledge of what went into each item on the menu with an endless store of gossip. None of it malicious and most of whcih had you in splits.
But then there was nothing small about Sabina. Right from her laugh, her bear hug that enveloped you down to the huge pearls she so favoured. `How I wish I could carry off such stuff,` I`d tell her enviously only to have her beam and reply, `And how I wish I could get by with eating so little.`
She was generous to a fault, going out of the way to help colleagues and friends as my son reminded me when I expressed my anxiety about her when we first heard she was at the Taj, Mumbai on that fateful night. `Wasn`t she the one who got me passes for that cricket match I so wanted to go to` he asked. That was more than 10 years ago and I`d forgotten about it but he hadn`t. But then that was what so special about Sabina. People whose lives she touched could never forget her!
Mythili Bhusnurmath, ECONOMICTIMES. COM
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It`s So Hard to Say Goodbye, Sabina !!!!!
It was a standing joke between us. Arindam Sengupta, then resident editor of this paper (now executive editor, The Times of India) and I would go for lunch together, jabbering away nineteen to the dozen. Till Sabina walked into the room! Arindam would then promptly ditch me for Sabina. How could he not? Sabina was everything I am not. Hearty, vivacious, with the loudest guffaw I`ve heard. She filled the room; it was impossible to ignore her!
And she loved food. Better than that, she understood food and was passionate about it. In short she was the ideal companion for lunch. Especially since she combined her incredible knowledge of what went into each item on the menu with an endless store of gossip. None of it malicious and most of whcih had you in splits.
But then there was nothing small about Sabina. Right from her laugh, her bear hug that enveloped you down to the huge pearls she so favoured. `How I wish I could carry off such stuff,` I`d tell her enviously only to have her beam and reply, `And how I wish I could get by with eating so little.`
She was generous to a fault, going out of the way to help colleagues and friends as my son reminded me when I expressed my anxiety about her when we first heard she was at the Taj, Mumbai on that fateful night. `Wasn`t she the one who got me passes for that cricket match I so wanted to go to` he asked. That was more than 10 years ago and I`d forgotten about it but he hadn`t. But then that was what so special about Sabina. People whose lives she touched could never forget her!
Mythili Bhusnurmath, ECONOMICTIMES. COM
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It`s So Hard to Say Goodbye, Sabina !
