New Delhi   

Revisiting 26/11 on 26/11

A file photo of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel dome engulfed in soot during last year’s terror attacks on Mumbai.

NEW DELHI: Chronicling the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai that held the world’s attention for three days is a special programme on Discovery Channel that will go on the air this Thursday.

According to Discovery, “Surviving Mumbai” will reveal the inside story of the attack. The one-hour show will tell how well-equipped, well-informed and tech-savvy the gunmen were to have planned such an attack. It re-tells the trauma the hostages went through for over 60 hours.

It features personal accounts from people who were caught in the siege and excerpts from actual transcripts of phone conversations between the gunmen and their commanders together with CCTV footage from the hotels giving a chilling account of the real story.

Describing November 26 last year as one of the darkest days in India’s history, Rahul Johri of Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific says the programme gives an account of the terror attack as told by the survivors: “The Mumbai terror attacks held the world’s attention for three days and months that followed. But in many ways the story that we all absorbed was an opaque account. We watched reports from the outside of burning buildings, quick sound bites from survivors and later accounts from the trial of the surviving terrorist.”

Seyfi and Meltam Muezzinoglu, a couple from Turkey, were taken hostage early on and spent eight hours in the gunmen’s company. They offer an extraordinary insight into the brutality and surprising naivety of the young gunmen. Anjali and her American husband Michael, who hid in the chambers at the Taj Hotel, tell how their mobile phone saved their lives and how the same almost gave the gunmen the information that could have killed them.

The show reveals never-seen-before footage from amateur cameras and mobiles.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Revisiting 26/11 on 26/11
Colours of winter
BMIC case: Gowda files fresh plea in SC
Hearing begins on January 19
Ajit Singh plans new stir over sugarcane price
Delhi High Court notice to DPS Society
Police reply sought in alleged foisted case
Braj Mahotsav
NDPL lays new line to boost power supply
JNU students protest against police action
‘Avoid these roads today’
Gang busted
Two maids held for theft
Water supply to be hit
Inside delhi
Two nabbed for robbery
Azadpur Mandi remains closed
Delhi child found in Kanpur
Sheila calls for reliable metering
Sreedharan meets Bombardier chief
In the capital today

Copyright © 2009, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu