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Showing posts with label seige of Mumbai. Show all posts
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Nov 26, 2008

Mumbai under siege Nov 26 2008

Wikipedia has information on the Hindi and the Urdu dialects of the khari boli register.

Hindi is the sanskritised version, Urdu is the persianised dialect. I mention this because one of the gunmen involved in Nov 26's siege on Mumbai, India, is said to have spoken in one of these dialects.

Through emails to various media outlets, a group calling themselves the Deccan Mujahideen has taken 'credit' for the attacks and murders - how proud they must be for sneaking up on the unsuspecting and unarmed.

I shall suppose that 'Deccan' here relates to the number '10' as it would in the west.

Interesting that English and Hindi share official language status in India's federal government. Both Urdu and Hindi have Indo-Aryan roots. Now this doesn't tar and feather all the gunmen with the same brush, of course, but it's the only identification of a language I've read as of yet.

My heart goes out to the city and people of Mumbai who have stood as innocents in the crosshairs of the politically and criminally insane...and while Pluto stood poised at 29Sag59, crisis degree mode and straining for controlling Capricorn, sign of government, business, and law.

A final note: Mumbai's business district and American and British citizens were their targets. Point taken.