All said and done!!
Finally the ordeal is over and many of our MS friends are really pouring their hearts out in more ways than one... Writing reviews, recently the one by shyamnambiar, is a very hard hitting write up that sums up the total damage done! Its rvealing in its dissection and the special appeal made by him to us all just tells us the pain and anguish suffered. Time for action ... Time for Kill!!
Well, I am going to look back at the footprints left by the perpetrators in the heart of us Indians and also pierced a deep knife in the heart of hospitality that runs in the blood of us all!!
Targetting hotel sites, particularly the ones which still stand proudly after braving all forms of attacks and landmarks by themselves, was indeed deliberate!! Why??
Any terrorist group has onlyone single aim: Kill, kill aimlessly... Spread the terror and teach a lesson o the world peace finders that they are around and alive and will not let things go any which way without their say!! Well the only language they understand is "Let Blood Flow... endlessly!! Let lives be reduced... !!"
The Taj and The Oberoi have been majestic and structures who have witnessed a change in time and suroundings right from the time they have been allowed to stand!! The culture of HOSPITALITY imbibes only one thing in us all... "ATITHI DEVO BHAVAH!!" All people who enter the dome of these buildings are guests and are as equal to us as God visiting us! We shall give the best of our services and food to appease the guest and give him / her an ambience that will remind the guest of his abode that he has left and will remind him of the food that he likes to eat and the comforts that he has built for himself... His HOME away from HOME!! Thats the mantra that our Hotel Industry works from. How many times are you at awe just looking at it from the outside and wishing you would one day be allowed to experience the very warm interiors,the plush lobby, the smiling faces greeting you on arrival, the "what would you wish to do Sir?"... The syllable called Sir being addressed towards you... It was so easy to enter a hotel lobby till 5 days ago..
Dress well, the durban salutes you and maybe even open the doors for you... People would then saunter into the plush lobby, seat themselves on the carefully selected upholstered seetees and leather sofas.... Ah!! Luxury at its best!!
You are seating inside there, feeling all important, looking at all the foreigners and the staff bustling about serving the guests... Its an awesome feeling!! It was so EASY....
What will happen today?? By shattering the core of the hospitality brick, lobbying grenades and not giving any reason for innocent foreigners who converge under this one roof, we have led us to be traced, searched and believe you me... made to feel like prisoners while entering such buildings called HOTELS!!We have single handedly finished the sheer reason for our country earning foreign exchange that went to the Govt reserves for better tomorrow... Hotels in India are special. Special because people who run it are professionals dedicated to make the face of India look beautiful, make India a beautiful hostess that beckons one and all to discover the magic thats hidden in her sands of time!!
These sands have footprints now.... Cruel, thick, deep and very bloody footprints!! Striking at these has really shaken the Entrance of outsiders to our land!!
Its just my post to really ruminate a bit of my own experience working in this industry... I was sad, very sad and in fact broken!! I was a core of this industry once and when I now looked back...
It made me shiver and cry....
