Soon, a group of policemen arrived, and Prabhu followed them into the Taj. He says the job was all that was on his mind. Forgotten was his family -- his homemaker wife, his 13-year-old school-going son.
Even his years of documenting the numerous terror attacks on India's financial capital -- including the train blasts of July 7, 2006 -- had not prepared him for the sight he saw inside the Taj.
Image: Vasant Prabhu captured police personnel checking for the terrorists at the Taj. Photograph: Kind Courtesy Indian Express
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