The child’s still body was a chilling sight

I hate it when people call me on my cell phone while I am riding my bike. I was on my way home around 9.30pm on 26/11, after completing the day’s work, when a colleague called. He said somebody had opened fire at Leopold Café. The phone rang again and again; all calls were about the terror attacks at the CST station, the Taj and the Trident.
I turned back to enter P D’Mello Road and zoomed towards CST. I saw what I had never thought was possible on a weeknight — all roads near the station were empty. People were running past me, away from CST, hollering that I must escape too. I moved into St George Hospital, parked my bike there and ran towards CST. I saw people running towards the hospital pushing handcarts, with bodies of railway commuters — either shot dead or injured —  on them.

Once inside the station, I saw blood everywhere. Bags and shoes of commuters were strewn all over. I shot the gruesome images. I was about to go towards the platforms, when I heard the sound of rapid gunfire coming from a distance. Some policemen came in my direction and told me to go back. But I tried to get closer to where the terrorists were firing. When I called my office, I was told to rush back with whatever pictures I had for the late city edition. As I stepped out, I saw, what to me, was the most blood-curdling sight of terror: two men lifting the still body of a child.