A postally unused carte postale bearing no publisher's name. The card, which has a divided back, was printed in Saxony.
Wellington Pier, Mumbai
Wellington Pier, formerly known as "Apollo Bunder," was an important pier for embarkation and disembarkation of passengers and goods in the city of Mumbai, India in the late 19th. century.
It is the location of the famed Gateway of India, although the only passengers using it now are those who are taking the ferry to Gharapuri.
The original name for the pier (Bunder means port or more correctly, haven) was derived from the Palla fish that were sold at this spot in former times.
This was corrupted to the Portuguese Pollem, and finally to the English Apollo. This old name was popular among Indians, and is still used today instead of Wellington Pier.
The pier was once a maze of wharves and docks where brisk trading took place. During the months of April and May the pier was particularly busy, with thousands of baskets of cotton being stacked ready for loading on to ships.
There was also frantic activity on the Cotton Green, at the Customs' House, and at the hydraulic presses where the raw staple was baled for export.
Since incoming passengers had to disembark together with their luggage at the Customs' House which was further north near the Mazgaon dock, passenger ships made only a short stop at the Apollo Bunder in order to land the mail.
Beginning in 1900, the Administration started to reclaim the area in order build the Gateway of India, designed to welcome Emperor George V.
The entire area now serves as a magnet for tourists visiting the gateway and the nearby Taj building, going to the Elephanta Caves or coming in remembrance of the 26/11 attacks.
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling's short story, Baa Baa Black Sheep, published in 1888. refers to the Apollo Bunder:
"Next day, they all went down to the sea, and there was a scene at the Apollo Bunder when Punch discovered that Meeta could not come too, and Judy learned that the ayah must be left behind. But Punch found a thousand fascinating things in the rope, block, and steam-pipe line on the big P. and O. Steamer, long before Meeta and the ayah had dried their tears."
The 2008 Mumbai Terrorist Attacks
The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as the 26th. November attacks) were a series of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist terrorist organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
The attacks, which drew widespread global condemnation, began on Wednesday 26 November and lasted until Saturday 29 November 2008. A total of 175 people died, including nine attackers, and more than 300 were wounded.
Eight of the attacks occurred in South Mumbai:
-- at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus -- the Oberoi Trident -- the Taj Palace & Tower -- the Leopold Cafe -- the Cama Hospital -- the Nariman House -- the Metro Cinema -- a lane behind the Times of India building and St. Xavier's College.
There was also an explosion at Mazagaon, in Mumbai's port area, and in a taxi at Vile Parle.
By the early morning of the 28th. November, all sites except for the Taj Hotel had been secured by the Mumbai Police and security forces.
On the 29th. November, India's National Security Guards (NSG) conducted Operation Black Tornado in order to flush out the remaining attackers; it culminated in the death of the last remaining attackers at the Taj Hotel and ended the attacks.
Before his execution in 2012, Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving attacker, disclosed that the attackers were members of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, and were controlled from Pakistan, corroborating initial claims from the Indian Government.
Pakistan later confirmed that the sole surviving perpetrator of the attacks was a Pakistani citizen.
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