By Friday morning, the cable had been cut off, water and food was over, and his BlackBerry was low on battery. It was dark and lonely. But Gupta penned out a check list to keep himself calm. His only nutrition came from sipping beer cans stored in the fridge. “I needed to re-hydrate or I would pass out.” At 1.30 pm on Friday the siege ended. Commandos escorted him along with seven other hostages to the Air India building. “I understood then what freedom meant. Being able to see the sky and breathing fresh air. It was a relief that my 42-hour ordeal was over.”
But life still goes on and Gupta promises to return to work on Monday, against the advice of his superiors.
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