But that was the last thing on his mind when he got a call in his office that gunshots had been reported from Cafe Leopold.
"I rushed there with our reporter," he says. As it was crowded, he told his reporter that he would join him after parking his motorcycle behind the Taj.
"I was shocked to see the terrorists firing and entering the Taj from the back."
Image: A glass shattered by a bullet at Cafe Leopold. Photograph: Kind Courtesy Indian Express
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