{"id":3294,"date":"2016-03-21T05:16:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T23:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2016-03-21T05:16:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T23:46:08","slug":"sacred-games-gaitonde-prophecy-mumbai-nuked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"What If Gaitonde\u2019s Prophecy Turns True and Mumbai Gets Nuked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span><\/p><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hen I watched the first episode of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/sacred-games-netflix-saif-ali-khan-vikram-chandra\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a few weeks ago, I did not expect that ending. Even with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/teachers-day-sacred-gamed-ganesh-gaitonde\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ganesh Gaitonde<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the dreaded kingpin, seemingly offed, his narration continues to drive the show through serpentine streets <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a Bombay both scummy and sparkling until it comes to a delicious turn in the heart of a Brutalist cement bunker. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But before we climb down into the dark, we must return to the first episode \u2013 back through the ornate embroidery of mythology and metaphor \u2013 where Gaitonde claims that he is Ashwatthama, the immortal warrior from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/doodle\/internet-time-mahabharata-memes-digital-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mahabharata<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In his misleading claim, what he (intentionally?) doesn\u2019t point out is that Ashwatthama isn\u2019t blessed with eternal life, but cursed by it. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Towards the end of Kurukshetra, Arjun and Ashwatthama have a face-off during which both of them invoke the Brahmashirsha astra against each other, fully knowing that their imminent collision would mean total annihilation of the world. Fortunately, Ved Vyas stops the astras and brings both of them to their senses. But Ashwatthama has no idea how to retract his missile, having only learnt to destroy, not safeguard. His Brahmashirsha kills the last remaining heir to the Pandava line and he is punished with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/altered-carbon-review-netflix-immortality-humanity\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">immortality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, to be lived out in perennial isolation, blacklisted from humanity. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so it goes with Gaitonde. Everliving but alone. Cursed to lose all that he loves to his megalomania. And under the bunker floor, a few scattered paraphernalia \u2013 Hazmat suits and Geiger counters \u2013 feebly hint at the modern-day Brahmashira. The weapon said to consume its target in a sphere of blazing fire, poisoning the soil, and preventing life from growing there again. Nuclear bomb much? Whatever happens next season, it\u2019s going to be first day-first show for me or whatever the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/netflix-binge-retired-parents-phones\/amp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netflix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> equivalent is. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ever since the series\u2019 terrifying cliffhanger, I\u2019ve been trying to imagine what would happen if sprawling <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/mumbai-bombay-india-shivaji-maharaj-shiv-sena-thane-haji-ali-mughal-empire-tom-hanks-kala-ghoda\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mumbai<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> actually got nuked?<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scant tidbits dropped throughout <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> imply that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/culture\/india-pakistan-independence-day-special\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pakistan\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) have some inscrutable role to play in the game. If Pakistan were to do that in real life, it\u2019s safe to assume that they\u2019d use the largest weapon at their disposal \u2013 a bomb with an approximate yield of 40 kilotons, that is an exploding force of 40 million kilogrammes of TNT. To give you an idea of its potency, one kilogramme of TNT is enough to obliterate a small car \u2013 40 million is nothing short of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/apocalypse-idukki-indonesia-climate-change-heatwave-death\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">apocalypse<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The radioactive fallout will eventually spread over a large area and any contact can cause severe radiation poisoning and promise a slow agonising death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The prospect of a nuclear disaster is especially frightening considering that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/mumbai-brats-manhattan-problems-bubble\/amp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mumbai<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> teems with millions of human bodies packed together on any given day. Naturally, a blast of this power could cause extensive fatalities anywhere in the city but take a moment to imagine what a blast could do if centred at Dadar station, itself located at the junction of the Central and Western rail lines, which carry millions of people every day. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detonation is almost always in the form of an airburst, that is the nuke is primed to explode in the lower atmosphere, about a kilometre above the ground. This allows the energy released to move in all directions spherically, maximising the impact. At the centre of the explosion will emerge a fireball around 300 metres in diameter, millions of degrees in temperature, erasing large swathes of Dadar from existence. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suddenly, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/sacred-games-netflix-sartaj-singh-saif-ali-khan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sartaj\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> flabbergasted \u201cAai zhavli!\u201d in the bunker doesn\u2019t quite cut it, does it? <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fireball will immediately be followed by the shockwave, a concussive blast extending from Worli sea fort on the west coast to Sewri sea fort on the right coast of Mumbai. This is enough to warp buildings and roads, fling vehicles, trees, bridges, and utility poles into the sky, the air thick with projectiles. At this point, only a few seconds have passed since the initial detonation. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next comes the thermal radiation, reaching from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/arre-checklist-bandra-babe\/amp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bandra<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> West in the north to Worli in the south. It appears as a wave of searing hot air, causing complete third-degree burns. At least those in the thick of it would be die a painless death: Their nerve endings would have been completely incinerated. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s not all: A second shockwave would span out until Fort, Trombay, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/mumbai-new-malabar-hill-bkc-navi-mumbai-kanjurmarg-zen-garden\/amp\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juhu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2013 indeed, even the mythical Gopalmath over which Gaitonde reigns. While not enormously destructive, it can shatter the glass covering most of Mumbai\u2019s skyscrapers and send razor shards whirling around the city like a minor hurricane. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I can guess what you might be thinking right now. Do we have any sort of defence to counter this massive loss of lives and unimaginable destruction? None, so to speak. This is where it gets even more grim. Our DRDO has been promising a ballistic missile defence system to protect Mumbai and Delhi from airbound attack for a while now. And even though the plan\u2019s development began <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Delhi-Mumbai-selected-for-ballistic-missile-defence-shield\/articleshow\/14370157.cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">six years<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ago, as of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/like-washington-moscow-delhi-too-to-get-missile-shield\/articleshow\/65181833.cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">last month<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the project is still languishing in its final stages. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a way, Kanta Bai predicted this helpless situation when she said, \u201cPeople who come to Mumbai live like worms, crawling all over each other until they are squashed by a greater power.\u201d And how true are her words, considering the combined effect of fire and force can kill over 7,00,000 people and cause nearly two million serious injuries within the first 24 hours of impact. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides the communications blackout, the disrupted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/rains-western-railways-mumbai-bmc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">railway<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lines and roads will result in widespread panic and riots, leading to more deaths. In fact, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link would be ripped from its moorings, stemming any chance of escape. And the land reclamation projects that brought Mumbai together will also be its downfall as the physical impact of the bomb at Dadar station could cause the sea to flood inwards from Mahim Bay. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The aftermath would be even more deadly, beginning with the formation of a mushroom cloud hundreds of metres high and composed of dirt, smoke, and radioactive fallout. The radioactive fallout will eventually spread over a large area and any contact can cause severe radiation poisoning and promise a slow agonising <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/modern-family\/mother-daughter-friendship-father-death\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">death<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. A particularly morbid outcome would be if the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Trombay is damaged \u2013 it might cause internal explosions and the dispersal of radioactive dust across hundreds of square kilometres. This could contaminate the soil and water, halting agriculture in the region. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Think of Mumbai as the garbage dump over which Ganesh Gaitonde wishes to reign in the early episodes. And then think of the nuking as the devastating fire that brought an empire to an end. Countless lives will share the same fate as Momin, the don of trash, ripped to shreds and fed to that toxic fire. The property damage to Mumbai alone will cost tens of thousands of crores, with the destruction of the Bombay Stock Exchange and the Reserve Bank of India crippling the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/black-money-demonetisation-narendra-modi-india-angadia\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian economy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the long term. Without a functioning state government, administrative functions would collapse, causing sweeping pandemonium. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is precisely what Gaitonde\u2019s third father wants. In his wolf-guru clothing, he is preparing a false narrative, establishing a front to instigate the backlash against Pakistan and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/india-muslim-community-not-in-my-name-protests-lynching-quran\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muslims<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. India has already warned that even a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Even-a-midget-nuke-strike-will-lead-to-massive-retaliation-India-warns-Pak\/articleshow\/19793847.cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">midget nuclear strike will lead to massive retaliation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Both our countries have stockpiled an arsenal of thermonuclear weaponry that could turn half the world into an irradiated wasteland. So you can imagine what might happen next. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this, the darkest timeline of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sacred Games<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I speculate a recovering India attempting to rebuild itself in the near future, with a fascist wariness toward Islam, blindly labelling followers as terrorists. We would construct concentration camps disguised as re-education centres, where many innocent Muslims are tortured and murdered under the pretext of anti-nationalism. Naturally, we will push and prod them to a breaking point \u2013 until someone somewhere decides to call upon a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/ghoul-review-netflix-radhika-apte-indian-horror\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">supernatural force<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to exact some legitimate vengeance. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Sacred Games\u2019 terrifying cliffhanger, I\u2019ve been trying to imagine what would happen if Mumbai did actually get nuked? Over 7,00,000 people will be dead within the first 24 hours of impact. 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