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Don't think there will be a sense of closure for 1993 blast: Alok Churiwala

Alok Churiwala, MD of Churiwala Securities was on BSE trading floor when the bombs started going off

Don’t think there will be a sense of closure for 1993 blast: Alok Churiwala
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Alok Churiwala, managing director of Churiwala Securities

Samie ModakShrimi Choudhary
Alok Churiwala, managing director of Churiwala Securities, a broking outfit, was on the Bombay Stock Exchange (now BSE) trading floor when the bombs started going off in Bombay in 1993. He recounts the events to Samie Modak and Shrimi Choudhary.

You were on the BSE trading floor when the blast took place 24 years ago. Can you recall the incident that day?

The first blast happened at the BSE after noon. We were in the “trading ring”. As usual, the situation in the trading ring was hectic, with animated conversations all around. People were running around to execute the orders that come

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