November 30, 2008
Mumbai Attacks | Citizen Journalism
From his terrace on Colaba Causeway in south Mumbai, Arun Shanbhag saw the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel burn. He saw ambulances leave the Nariman House. And he recorded every move on the Internet.
Mr. Shanbhag, who lives in Boston but happened to be in Mumbai when the attacks began on Wednesday, described the gunfire on his Twitter feed — the “thud, thud, thud” of shotguns and the short bursts of automatic weapons — and uploaded photos to his personal blog.
Mr. Shanbhag, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, said he had not heard the term citizen journalism until Thursday, but now he knows that is exactly what he was doing. “I felt I had a responsibility to share my view with the outside world,” Mr. Shanbhag said in an e-mail message on Saturday morning.
Read the NYT article.
Thanks to Maarja and her post to the Archives and Archivists List.
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Daryl and I spent a couple of anxious days waiting to hear from our dear friends, Melinda and Jim, who are vacationing in India and planned to spend much of their time in Mumbai. As it happened, they were in the Himalayan foothills when Mumbai was in the grip.
It’s an odd feeling to be relieved about the well-being of particular people while so many strangers suffer. I’ve been feeling happy and sick all at once.
I don’t know anybody in India, but I feel happy for everyone that hasn’t had to suffer and sick for everyone who had to.