20 years back on this day the twin towers crashed. I remember my father looking at the reel which was being played on loop on TV saying that a war was imminent. On rushing to college and taking the stairs to the classroom from the back side of the building, there were groups of people crowding and talking in the most animated tone  about the fall of the towers and how a Powerful nation would react to it. People were worried at the backlash the incident would bring. Many students who wanted to take a flight to the US decided its best to go to Australia. And so did many. Frankly I did not think of it much of it..I had no plans for the Australia or the US. But I think the fall of the towers affected everyone in some way or the other.We passed out the following year after 8 months. Like the fall of the towers there was fall of jobs almost in all parts of the world.I mean how could it be. It was somewhere in NYC that happened but how did it affect almost everyone one in the world.But it did and it did in its own way. Parents who had sent the kids to US after investing or selling some property stopped smiling for some time. How would they repay the loan? Cousins stopped calling afraid of the repercussions it would have from talking to someone in a third world country. Relations crashed just like the towers in many ways.Some whose visa got rejected were smiling grimly. After all God had saved them.Some friends who had loans quietly married anyone who proposed and had a job in the US.It was the safe way for the time being. Kids who wanted to do Phd quietly went for the DBA job that was in the market.Many people were cross their US visa was rejected. They blamed it on many things. On people around them on having friends who had no ambition.

After maybe 12 years I was standing at the big hole where the twin towers stood.As I tood and looked at the holes before me there was so much pain and a deep bitter sadness whic hcaught hold on the heart. I think it happens to many poeple as I saw many crying quietly there. The souls of the departed did not really depart from there.Such is the action of two people who never thought they could do something did it and created a hole which would never be filled in history.