Mumbai: A battered Bombay Stock Exchange was one of the most evocative images of the 1993 bomb blasts. Twenty years on, on the day of the verdict on Thursday, it was business at the stock exchange as usual. But for some, the wounds have still not healed. Kirti Ajmera, a stockbroker who underwent nearly 40 surgeries after being grievously injured in the blasts, says the Supreme Court's verdict has not brought any sense of closure to him.
"The verdict is not going to reduce my pain, nor do I think if I will get any relief," he says.
Tushar Deshmukh is still haunted by the image of his mother who was killed during a bus ride at Century Bazaar. Although he is happy with the apex court's verdict, he asks, what about the accused who are absconding? "Till they are brought back to India and tried, there will not be closure," he says.
For outsiders and BSE regulars like SP Dubey, the images of blood and gore in one of independent India's deadliest terror attacks, remain ingrained at his paan shop. "If one gets death, all should get death," he says.
Twenty years have passed. For the survivors of Mumbai's deadliest attacks, the pain is still sharp, the wounds still raw but forgiveness or closure, is not the solution.
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