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Stand up and people will join you

Shibu Thomas I TNN December 20: IIT-Bombay students will organise a free rock concert and dedicate it to terror victims. Finnish band Ensiferum will perform on Day One of Mood Indigo on the Powai campus Mumbai: “I’m mad as hell and I won't take it anymore,’’ filmmaker Suparn Verma (33), wrote in his blog post on Saturday morning , the day NSG commandos ended the 60-hour standoff with terrorists. Verma ended his blog saying he will maintain a vigil outside Taj Mahal hotel at 6 pm on on December 3. Within an hour, a reader put in a comment saying he will join him. A trickle of messages soon became a roaring stream as forums and communities cropped up on social networking sites and text messages were sent thick and fast asking people to gather for the candlelight march on Wednesday outside Mumbai’s iconic hotel. “Something just snapped in me,’’ says Verma, adding that he is no torch-bearing activist but is just venting his frustration with the political class. “We all talk

Light a candle but in your hearts and show you care

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In hospital lists, death toll up to 169 JJ HOSPITAL 1. Hemant Karkare (Police) 2. Ashokrao Kamthe (Police) 3. Tukaram Ombale (Police) 4. Vijay Salaskar (Police) 5. Arun Chite (Police) 6. Mehenbi Harharwala 7. Salim Ali Harharwala 8. Subhas Waghela 9. Paripasha Ali Shaikh 10. Shashank Shinde (Police) 11. Prakash More (Police) 12. Vijay Khandekar 13. M L Chaudhary (Police) 14. Baban Hugde 15. Ejazbhai Haji Dalal 16. Rehimatulla 17. Jaywant Patil (Police) 18. Yogesh Patil (Police) 19. Babusaheb Durgude (Police) 20. Ambadas Pawar (Police) 21. Babasaheb Bhosale (Police) 22. Sitaram Sakhare 23. Mukesh Jadhav (Police) 24. Kamal Motwani 25. Brett Gilbert Taylor 26. Mira M Chaterjee 27. Michael Stuart Moss 28. Ashfar Ali Shaikh 29. Zarina Sasusdin Shaikh 30. Fuchand Shriram Kishorbin 31. Nitesh Vijaykumar Sharma 32. Gaurav Valchand Jain 33. Malayesh Manvendra Banerjee 34. Jugran Hedridge Rodolf 35. Thomas Varghese 36. Sadanand Patil 37. Steve Daphane 38. Nita Gaikwad 39. Abbas Razzaq ansari 40.

Praying and paying homage to the departed in Terror brutal attack

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The Burning TAJ The list of the Departed World Reacts 14,499 WAS THE number of terror attacks worldwide in 2007, compared to 11,156 in 2005. Almost 43 per cent— about 6,200—occurred in Iraq, where 13,600 fatalities—60 per cent of the worldwide total—were reported in 2007, according to the US National Counterterrorism Center’s Country Report on Terrorism 2007. 1795 WAS WHEN the word terrorism was invented, in connection with the French revolutionaries who executed their enemies. But terrorism as we know it today is hought to have taken its roots after the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War in 1967. After the Israelis occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the PLO hijacked planes. They raided the Olympic village in Munich, in 1972, killing 17 Israeli athletes. 1,111 PEOPLE KILLED in terrorist attacks in India this year till November 24, two days before the Mumbai terrorist attacks. $430 BILLION IS the amount that the US Congress has spent since 2001 on military and dip