Scared about Tansacting Online !!!

Transacting online is always a point of insecurity and fear, although you are committed to have every bit of your transaction details secured and kept confidential. This is almost every time, we are promised by every company on this earth. People are always in a big dilemma to judge between pain to visit banks or pay utility bills personally and sitting comfortably in the house and transferring money or paying all the bills online.

Today we are living in a jet edged society, where everything we do becomes a style statement. Just because to live up to the expectations of the society, we end up inclining more towards online mode of payment than going personally and making it, but I can bet, everyone has a question in mind, “how much my money is secure in this?” and “what happens if the connectivity is lost in between my transaction?”

With an exponential growth in the cyber crimes in the space and with the known philosophy of attaining unachievable 100% security, individuals or corporate end up installing all sorts of defensive layers of security, making their network more and more complex. The idea of “being secured” cannot be achieved by just enhancing the layers of security but by increasing the awareness of it.

Let me shed some light on the most destructive and undetected attack till date. This is the most dreaded when it comes on it applications on banking sites. Most of the banking crimes or online frauds are the outcome of this attack. This attack exploits the trust a user has on his/her browser and injects and activates malicious codes using phished pages.

This type of attack is called “Cross Site Request Forgery” or “CSRF” or “One Click” attack. This attack exploits the HTTP request, and user sends to the target server through its browser. In layman’s term, if you want to have certain amount of money withdrawn from the victim’s bank account, you can do this. You can very well write a code in the website using an “on click” event, so that every time the user clicks the link, a certain amount will be withdrawn from his account and will be deposited the other account.

How it works?

First of all, it is to be understood that this type of request tampering can happen between multiple accounts in the same bank. It cannot work on multiple bank accounts.

Next, we will intercept the bank request and will try to get an online version of the web site code, the reason behind this is that, usually, if you want to change a code and get it reflected in the website, it is not possible using offline code.

Then once we get the online code, then we will find some open links. Open links can be an image link or a button click. Let’s have an example of this, let’s say, I want to make all the users click on an image to go to the next page.

By default there will be a code which will say like this,

<a href src =”next page path”

<img src = “Image source path”></img>

</a>

Now after I intercept this code, I will change the “image source path” into a malicious code like,

<img src=http://bank.domain.com/withdraw?account=victim&amount=100000&for=attacker>

When I load the page with the changed code, it does miracle… every time there is a click happening in this page, automatically an amount is deposited in the attacker’s account, without the knowledge of the victim.

These types of attacks cannot be detected easily because they reside into the backbone of trusted HTTP protocol, which the sites used to load. Since they are not a standalone bunch of code, which could create suspicious but they are the trusted code which cannot be questioned.

How do I know?

It’s being a decade; I am working in the field of detecting and stopping cyber frauds. I often come across many cases of these types. The problem is there is no trace left behind to detect the actual culprit. The maximum anyone can do is to; take a reactive decision in stopping the next attack after the damage has happened. Looking this, I developed a framework which is blended with the coding concepts of a website, which limits anything of this sort.

She called me and disapeared !!

You could hear someone calling you from behind and still can ignore thinking….”Hey, My ears are ringing!!” but what you do when you turn back and got to see someone standing and with a blink, the person disappears.

This happened with me quite a number of times, when I could hear familiar voices calling my name. At first, I used to ignore but then after this day I started to take this seriously. I am in a profession, where it takes considerable amount of travel and usually I do it alone.

It happened, when I was in srilanka for an assignment. My company gave me a big apartment which was opposite to a food joint. Although, I had everything to cook my food, but due to tiredness, I usually skipped cooking. I felt it easy to go down walk few steps and take the food.

I still remember, it was the month of November, very pleasant weather in Colombo. I came out of my apartment and started walking on the road. It was evening and heavy breeze was flowing, I was sort of enjoying the walk. It had been some 20 odd steps I would have taken, I heard someone calling my name.

I could judge, the voice was of a girl, someone I knew but not in touch from a long time. First I thought that, I was hearing voices because of the tiredness. I thought of neglecting that and continued walking. Then soon after, I again the same voice, what surprised me was, even though I was walked some more distance still the pitch of the voice was same. This time I thought of turning back. With great excitement, I turned back and I could see a girl, in an age of 23 – 25 yrs was standing in some distance.

She was clear and was wearing decent clothes and was smiling to me. I started to think whether any chance I met with that girl or chatted with her. Her face was glowing with a light, which made me to see her face clearly. I felt an energy around me which was attracting me like a magnet. I started walking towards her and she was still standing in the same place.

Things were not in my hand and I was not sure even, what was happening to me. Only I wanted to know, how come she and my name. I didn’t knew that by thinking all these, I was walking on the road. Then suddenly a loud car horn broke the possessiveness (that’s what I felt) in me and I realized that I standing right infront of a car. I turned toi see the girl and she was not there. The place didn’t felt like, someone was even standing there from past couple of minutes.

I understood, this cannot be my illusion and there is something happened to me. The feeling didn’t really shook me from inside but yes it got added into the list of my paranormal experiences.

11 point analysis of my marriage!!!

Looking to the fading trust in the institution in marriages and with an increase in broken mariages, I felt the need of analysing my marriage. I am not doing because I feel there is something wrong or I have to tell people how happy I am . But it is to negate the believes people have in their mind and on the brighter side, no one thinks that there wil always be someone who will balance your lifeand share your pain. But remember nothing is ONE WAY..

Worth of Consideration

1.       Firendship comes first: First thing people need to understand that things don’t change even you are married. A couple should treat each other as FRIENDS and then as a couple. There are some things which we are comfortable in sharing as friends rather than as a couple.

2.       Individuality should remain: This is very important, a couple needs to understand. Before we are a couple, we are two individual. One should not think of giving the indivituality just because, now we are married. One should realize that identity of one is equally important to ba a part of a family.

3.       Giving Space: Its very important to have both the individual working to live up to the growing demands of the society. Gone are the days, when in a family of 4 only 1 used to be earning and others used to enjoy, especially the girls. Now with the increase in global trend, where working is not only important to earn money,  but also it helps to retain one’s indentity and to retain the life style in the society.  Corporates are moving to a cross-culture where we are working with hetrogenous people, it becomes very important to give space as an individual in a relationship.

4.       Respest each other’s growth: Growth in all the aspects, is respected always and the problem starts, when one person’s growth is faster than the other one. I don’t feel embarrassed to say that this type of thinking is majorly with the males in the relationship. For a successful relationship, both individuals should understand the growth ppotentials of each other and create path for each other. Both of them should respect the growth and encourage each other in achieving the same.

5.       No Place for EGO: Ego comes in a relationship, when people start thinking of “I” or “Me”, instead of “Us” or “We”. Ego playes a vital role in creating clashes in a family or in a relationship. I want to say only one thing that, when we cannot carry love, then how come we can carry ego in us? No relationship can be successful, if any of us has ego inside us. Ego builds up very quickly inside us and when it over powers the loving side of us , one cannot understand.

6.       Express you feelings: I understand that we are so much busy with out hectic lives that, we don’t have time to even sit and have a pleasant food. But how much time it takes for you to pick up your phone, dial a number and tell “ I love you “ or “I miss you”, these are some magical words, which makes the other person feel special. This is important in a relationship, One should not miss these small moments to surprise your other half. Small surprises still works , for keeping the excitement in one’s life. Surprises need not to be a big one everytime,  but small gesture showing your true feelings can add lot of spice.

7.       She / He fought with me, why I should say “Sorry”:  This is very pecular problem with the couples these days that no one wants to bend down to end up the fight. This is where again an EGO is playing its game. Please remember, small fights are indeed needed to retain the spice of the life, but along with that, it should not be stretched. Nothing remains good when it is stretched.

8.       Work should remain in office: We have a common quatlity, to show how much sincere we are towards our work, by bringing all the pending works in home. We are so engrossed in proving ourselves that we forget that there is another world outside the office, where someone wants to spend some quality time with us. No one is so much busy in their life that they cannot even take out little time for their family or loved ones. Pretending to be busy is equivalent of neglecting someone, then why to complain when you also get the same.

9.       Marriage is a commitment not a burden: Today people don’t want to their relationship into marriage. They don’t want to take responsibilities for their whole life. Having this kind of feeling is natural because we are living in a society, which itself has lost hopes from marriage. Today marriages are nothing but a rituals which needs to be performaed, for the sake of the parants. But when it is looked into the individual level, a feeling of burden is always there. So I say , it is very important for a couple to spend good quality time with each other and treat as a friend, will help the couples to enter or build a solid and grounded relationship.

10.   Respect and Trust: Respect and Trust are two basic building blocks of a loving relationship. Love grows in a relationship when couples have love and respect for themselves. One cannot expect love without these two spices. Once you star respecting each other then autometically, you will trust ecah other. Openness comes with respect and trust. Couples need to be open to each other. Hiding things with a fear of losing each other creates a never ending gap in a couple. Psychologically people have the tendency to talk of good things and hide the bad ones. One should be always open with their loved ones regarding their past, problems. It is is worth to remember that , “Even if no one can help you with you with your problems, but sharing with your loved ones, makes you feel light”. Without Respect and Trust, no relationship can be lived happly. I am not saying to have a blind trust,  but one should show sufficient trust when it is required.

11.   Remember the 7 promises: Promises made at the time of marriage should be always remembered and our action should be towards the fulfillment of those promises. This is an inherent expectation in a relationship that both of the better halves should atleast remember the promises made infront of the gods, to each other. You can always added promised  but should make a point to fulfill the promises.

I have personally implemented all these in my life and happily enjoying the feeling of it. Its being 7 glorious of our marriage and we havent forgot that we met because we were destined to meet. But to be happy, there is no destiny. Its on us how we frame our life. Indeed, marriage brings lot of changes in one’s life, and the exciting part is to accept and react to those changes. I would not say, things are easy for everyone,  but I believe they are not even hard to try.

Fading Patriotism

“Proud to be an Indian!!!’ and “India first..Then me” etc. are only limited on T-shirts, we find on the streets, but the question do we really feel the same? We enjoy the holidays on republic and independence days and stay home feeling patriot.  But we don’t act when we find our flags on the road. We enjoy walking on them, but do not get the urge of picking it up and keeping it somewhere else.

We go to watch movies, but how many of us actually stand up when the national anthem is played? I have personally seen, people are not even bothered to leave their valuable seats for just few seconds and we call us patriot. They why to play and insult our national anthem in places like this?

I have been to Delhi, lot of times and also visited places like Raj Ghaat, India Gate etc. I wanted to see, whether, these places looks the same way as we see in our TV. But it is so painful to see that, these places are not even taken care, they are neglected to the last limit. I couldn’t even compare the same monument in reality and in TV and we say we are patriot.

Today our tricolor is most seen on pour clothes, we see it on sarees, shirts, socks, hats etc. and we say we are patriot. Sorry to say, today patriotism is just hosting the flag, having some sweets, come home and relax. This is patriotism…

India burnt several times because of our external trespassing, but I don’t see anything harm in this when people inside the country are so much patriot. When we have our best of leaders who are promising day in and day out then why to fear, if anyone comes in or not, how does it matter when we are living a good life, who cares about living it honestly, as end of the day it is money which speaks.

People don’t even know what is India? And what is our national anthem, and then also we are patriot. Who says we don’t raise our voice, we have raised our voice against each and every wrong thing happened but still voted for most of our best leaders.

“Aai mere watan ke logon, zaara aankh main bhar lo paani , jo shaheed huie hain unki, tum yaad karo kurbani”, but do we really know who were they, we only know selected high profiled names but forgot those unnamed heroes, who gave their life, their life for us , for our independence. We know who is Mahatma Gandhi and what happened on 2^nd October 1869, but how many of us know, what happened on 23^rd March 1931?, how many people know about Gandhi – Erik Pact ? Because of which we lost 3 youth icons on this day.

There is a dense political game around this day, when we could have saved Bhagat Sing, Rajguru and Sukhdev, then why didn’t they were saved? There are so many of our heroes, who died even though, they could have been saved. But our great leaders thought of their own power and prosperity and let go what was happening.

Today I feel that, we were indeed being tortured by British people but nothing has changed after independence also. At least before independence, we knew who are our enemies and today we don’t know. But the condition is the same. Being having the largest knowledge pool, its being more that 6 decades, we are still a developing country and we are happy about it.

It is really shocking, when I see people don’t even know the national anthem correctly. “Saare jahan se achha Hindustan hamaara, hum bulbulein hain iski yeh gulsitan hamara” Is only a song now because our gulsitan is no more a gulsitan; people have destroyed the serenity of it and still haven’t stopped. Do we call this PATRIOTISM? I am afraid 6 decades before we were under British rule and today under British culture. Then where is that patriotism, people don’t even get up from their sofa when the national anthem is played television, instead of that they change the channel, so that they don’t have to get up.

There are so many things happening around and you feel what can I do? If this feeling would have been there with our heroes then they might not have to give their life like this. But they followed their heart and did what they felt necessary and today everyone has forgot then, their ultimate sacrifices. See the condition of their family here; no one is bothered to visit them.  Why today everyone wants to go abroad for studies, work etc. but no one is interested to join our armed forces? No one wants to be here and serve the nation.

The reason is very simple, these people are the one who are badly treated in India, and their safety is no one’s concern these days. They don’t have proper guns, in sufficient bullets, bad quality safety jackets, in sufficient food on the borders and after death only promises. Why should anyone go into this after knowing the problems.. And then also we say we love our country.

I am not surprised, that our coming generations will find "Patriotism" only in dictionaries.

A Tearful Separation !!

I was watching some reality show on TV yesterday. It was on a marriage. There was a scean where the bride cries hugging her mother and seeing this, everyone present there started crying. After a long time, tears came in my eyes and I wanted to cry. With a heavy heart, I went to the bed room but broke there, my wife who was sleeping there, woke up surprised and consoled me.

Now, when I remember this whole thing, I don’t understand, why I cried? Is this was a reflexive effect seeing them crying or something different. It was a heavy feeing, I have seen many emotional sceans on TV, but haven’t felt like this. I realized the pain of separation between the girl and her parents. The doubt of whether, she would be able to meet them or not, broke me down.

Looking on the broader angle of this, this is very much normal. Every girl has to leave her parent’s house one day and go to her in-laws house. She has to think that house as her own and forget her parent’s house. But WHY???? I am surprised, who made this rule and why?? . They were not humans to make this type of rule. I understand that, these type of rules were made by someone living a male dominated society,  but why didn’t they thought of the after effects of this rule would make? They didn’t thought, that they are acting selfish against one gender and favoring the other one.

Parents give us birth and give us their love and nourish us. They take all the pain and give us all the happiness. They think about their child first and then about themselves after that. If this is applicable to all the children then why girls are deprived of taking care of their parents and boys are not. We say that god created all of us even this world, then Why didn’t he oppose to such Hippocratic rules?

Ancient epics say that “Kanya-daan (giving the girls)” leads to the path of heavens. But how come, this is possible; giving a part of your body is not so easy. How can this act be so great when it shatters so many hearts? How can this act be so great when it is not pleasant? How come gods are happy on this act when the separation if so much tearful.

And after all these things what a girl gets in her hand. She leaves everything behind to build a new world and she gets hatred, ill treatment, physical abusement and finally burnt to death. Out of those 7 commitments which she takes in the marriage, only 1 is fulfilled. That is, “The bride will come to house and only her dead body will leave the house”. 

I always feel, there is no right of any man to even forget what her wife has done for him. He should realize the pain of this separation and no one else can bear this pain. He should owe his life always to his wife, as she will be adding colors to his life. He should realize that, given a chance, he couldn’t do what his better half can do. “Better Half” …people have forgotten the meaning of this. They are so much engrossed with their greed and hunger; they forgot that she is their BETTER half.

Seeing all these, just one thing I want to ask to god, “Why didn’t he oppose this human sin, when he saw the first girl leaving her parents. When he is so much powerful and able, then why didn’t he stopped this tearful separation or he enjoyed it “…

Explaining the UnExplained !!! - Normal / Abnormal / Paranormal

We live in a scientific world, where everything is been justified by a logic and people don’t want to believe on things which has no existence in the books of logic. I strongly don’t believe in these justifications. There are things beyond this materialistic definition of earth, something which can be experienced but cannot be explained.

What we see with our eyes, we believe it to be NORMAL because we can justify it like rising and setting of sun, walking, eating etc. Things which our eyes see but don’t react to any direct logic, actions which can be justified indirectly as a cause of some other action,  but do not fit into any direct or logical explanations, we call them “ABNORMAL” like hallucinations or illusions, self communication etc. and the last part is those things which are away from being NORMAL or ABNORMAL, they happen but cannot be explained, they are real but cannot be justified as real, they are selective, they are things science has not got any definition of their existence, these are called “PARA NORMAL ( beyond normal)”

All of us know that our body is a combination of tangible and intangible ingredients. One can see, touch and even feel the presence of someone physical in a room without even seeing the person; this is something intangible aspect of a body. In our old epics, it is written that our body is a combination of 5 natural elements or it can react or respond to 5 natural elements: Air, Water, Earth, Fire and Sky, but what is missing is the ENERGY. Our body reacts to different source of energy very easily.

When our body has such an affinity to energy then what drives this structure? The answer is the same ENERGY . We use energy to drive our structure, the source of this energy is not only the food we take but also from the outer energies we react to. Our body creates a huge Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) around itself, which attracts other energies falling in its spectrum and rejects the energies which don’t fall in the spectrum. That we were, we define “ATTRACTION” and “REPULSION”

When we die, our body starts throwing the energy which is present. This happens because; the energy is always transmitted at low temperatures. So when we die or near death, huge chunks of energy is radiated out from our body and we call it as “SOUL”. Then why we see faces of our loved ones? The answer is very question. As I said, energies attract to the similar energy fields, and that is call as friends. The intensity of this attraction differs depending upon the field values of the energy. With more matching parameters, the attraction is very strong. This is when our eyes scans the image of the person and converts it into a digital impression which is stored in our brain. So we always remember the person, even if he is not around.

Now when any one dies, who was very close to our heart, our brain transmits the impression to our eyes and it implants it to the energy. As all of us know that, energy can change any shape, it is our eyes that sees that energy chunk was an impression of our deceased one. There is a very less probability that 2 different people will see the same impression. But to achieve that, then the brains of all the people needs to be synchronized.

Even more than 1 person in a group can experience the same sighting, but they always experience on different levels. One might experience a joyful moment then the other might experience just opposite of that. It’s just the reflection of the mood of that person at that point of time.

Then why paranormal? If everything can be explained...

The reason is, even though we can explain many things logically then also there are several aspects where science is unable to explain. The origin of life is still cannot be explained. I would certainly not say this as paranormal but yes...its UN explained. Humans are the biggest victim of hallucinations and illusions. We tend to believe, what we see, but we forget that it is our brain which is telling our eyes, what to see. So if I have an image in my brain, then I would often see that image wherever I go.

But understanding paranormal activities are not limited to this only, there are no explanations of physical actions caused by other energies and also when scientifically proved that energies decompose in the lower temperatures then how can a SOUL or SPRIT be cold?? Think a little.

I have been doing lots of research in paranormal activities from long time and I try to relate these activities with various scientific logic. Although, I have succeeded to relating some part of it, but I am still struggling on many parts of it. I think, this is why it is called “PARANORMAL” not “NORMAL” or “ABNORMAL”

6th July 2005 - A day we cannot forget !!

I was working late in the office and was concerned of reaching home, as it was pouring outside. But this was the case every day in monsoons. I quickly packed my bag, took my half broken umbrella and left my office. I checked my watch before leaving, it was showing 6:00 PM. There were several news flashes on radio of water logging in various places in Mumbai. But I didn’t care, it has been almost 3 decades for me living in Mumbai and these things were not new for me.

On my way to railway station, I saw drivers pushing their rickshaws. I was working in Juhu and wanted to catch the harbor line local. I was walking fast to reach the station as quickly as possible, because of heavy rains there were not enough rickshaws on the road. After walking for few meters, I saw there was a huge water logging in the other side of the road. I thought, it was obvious because that section of the road was a low lying area. I entered into the water, the water was reaching my hips, I somehow waded the water quickly and reached the other end. Till that time, it was dark and even my umbrella broke due to heavy breeze.

Then suddenly all the street lights were gone and there was dense darkness on the street. There were lots of people on the road who wanted to reach the station. Sun was setting and there was little bit of light, through which the road could be judged. I was able to reach the other side quite quickly as thought, I am certainly not a swimmer, but from my childhood days, I had affection towards water. But I was shocked seeing a big crowd in the side. Out of curious, I went to the crowd to see what the matter was. I couldn’t believe what I saw. The main road connecting that road was totally filled with water.

The whole scean was very terrifying and I realized what was happening or what has happened. I stared to walking towards the nearest railway station but soon I realized that I was moving to the same location from where I started, judging the directions in the dark was very hard and I had to again go back. I could see cars floating in the water and busses were half filled with water. People were panicking on the nature’s surprise.

Walking in the flowing water was not easy, my jeans were totally wet and the weight of the jeans ached my legs, at some point standing was just unbearable. But I was not having any other option but to keep walking. The potholes were opened at different sections of the road, but to judge potholes or even the divider was a problem was water was flowing over them. I took the option of following the crowd and reached to the nearest safe point. I checked my watch, it was showing 9:00 PM, I lost 4 hrs in this effort.

Trains were stopped because of the water logging in the stations and there was no indication of when they would resume. I reached the station and saw people were sitting on the bench and even on the foot over bridge. I somehow managed to make my way through them and landed to the other side. Rains stopped for some time and fortunately there were ample lights to see. I waited there for some time for any means I could get to reach home and soon I saw a bus coming. There was no one in the bus, I tried to run to stop the bus but because of my jeans, I couldn’t do. I asked couple of taxi drivers to take me home and I could give them whatever money they want, but all of them refused. I realized that the same thing happened here also.

I realized to start walking in the same way, but this time because of the exertion I was feeling hungry. I thought of having something and then start walking but there was not a single shop open. It was just 9:30 PM and everything was closed. I had no option but to start walking. Fortunately, I could see the road because the street lights were working.  I thought of going to the highway and was confident that I will get some sort of commutation to home. There were some places where water had logged till the hip and even higher than hip level.

I reached the highway faster than previous effort but there was the same problem. I could see only people walking, nothing apart from that was there on the road. I met with one guy and he told me that he was walking all the way from CST station. I sat in a place and calculated the distance, it was around 25 – 30 Kms more to reach home and there was nothing to take me there. I have to walk to my home, but how?? I was thirsty; I was hungry and dead tired. Somewhere in my mind said that I might not reach home tonight and more over my mobile was also dead.

I followed the crowd and could see there were many volunteers distributing water bottles and biscuit packets to people. I felt relieved; I at once grabbed some biscuit packets and a bottle of water. All though we always recommend, not to borrow anything from strangers but that time, it was a fight for survival. I checked my watched, It was showing 12:00 AM and that was the last place I could see the light. I also saw the same bus which I left in the station standing there filled with people. I think, they found that to be the most secure option rather than risking their own life. But I thought of trying.

I entered in the water again, this time water was very much cold and reached till my chest. There was a high tide and water was expected to rise more. People were walking in it making a human chain. The situation looked scary as all the vehicles were parked on the bridge. I still remember it was a full moon night and rain had stopped for some time. People were guiding others while walking through water.

I appreciated this Mumbai feeling and felt proud of being a mumbaikar. I covered good amount of distance but was not feeling to even stand. I thought of sitting in a place for sometime before starting again. Determination and courage overcome my sleep. I made a plan to reach home, I thought, somehow I have to reserve my energy till the end of this ordeal and for that I should get equal portions of rest. I never saw my watch after that. I started walking and eventually taking rest in between.

Many of you guys might know that Mumbai and New Mumbai is divided by a creek and there is no other way to reach new Mumbai without crossing the bridge. Because of heavy rains the water roused to the height of the bridge and there was no light on the bridge. As a result crossing that was a direct threat to the life. I could see the violent sound of water flowing under the bridge. Police blocked the whole bridge giving a HIGH DENGER alert.

But people were impatient and wanted to reach home, when it was just a bridge distance. On high demand, police allowed us to cross the bridge but at our own risk. I thought, if now I move back then my whole effort will be wasted. I took god’s name and started to cross the bridge. The bridge was old and was cracked from many places. I can also see the water hitting the edges of the bridge but I cannot stop now. I ran to the other end of the bridge.

New Mumbai is a high level area and there is no water logging, there were also enough lights on the streets, so there was not a problem. I got a lift from a biker to some distance near to my place. But situation there was much worse than Mumbai.

Due to heavy rains, water crossed the danger marks in all the dams near my place and to save the dams from the increasing water pressure they had to open the doors. The water coming from there washed all the villages which came in its way. Huge number of deaths recorded in those areas and all of them were in sleep. Dead bodies came floating in the water. I could see several people floating in water….dead.

My building is a 3 floor building and I saw my car floating in the water. Water reached above the first floor and it was fortunate that we have a parking in the first floor. I lived in the 2^nd floor of the same building. I reached home and my mother started crying after seeing me safe and sound. She has having negative thoughts of my survival seeing the dead bodies floating on the water. I checked the watch and it showed 4:00 AM.

I was living in Panvel and was working in Juhu on a project. The distance between both the places is very much to travel as a direct train taken almost 1 hr 30 mins to reach one direction.

Today also when I remember the whole episode, I get goose bumps. But this has increased my passion and love for Mumbai. The spirit of helping others is what impressed me. In the time, when people were thinking of saving their own lives, there were few people helping to save others life. People they have never met neither will be meeting again, but that was the time, we all came together to help and give comfort to others in the time of crises. Mumbai came together not to save a particular cast or creed but to save a universal emotion called “Brotherhood” and “Humanity”. Not a single government official’s neither a politician showed their face that day. They were sleeping on their cozy beds when entire Mumbai was on the streets.