BOMBay goes MUM

Bombs went off in seven YFYS (suburban first-class and second-class composite) coaches on the WR line on 11 July 2006. This date will now be immortalised as 11/7 , 7/11 , 11 July etc. Close to 200 hundered innocent lives have been lost. They say its a terrorist attack, which it indeed looks like. Anger is written large over everyones faces. In 1993 about 250 lives were lost in the serial bomb blasts - this time the toll may be more.

But as I was reading just now - Dont lose courage, dont give in - dont surrender and then even the most hardened terror attack will not able to destablise things.

There is despair, sadness and frustration - but life goes on.

They say that Mumbai is back to business - its fantastic reslient spirit and other such fancy words. But if one sees the situation this morning, one doesnt see this "spirit". Most people have stayed away. Trains and buses are half empty. Traffic is less. People have indeed been jolted and jolted hard this time. It will take time to heal. Mumbai is more vulnerable than before and a possible reason is due to its current inhabitants.

Some things which we could do without :

• Our Mumbai Police force - including RPF etc.
• Our over enthusiastic TV channels and their good-for-nothing crew - filming the dead for their own survival. All in the name of providing "information". And they keep harping - "We were the first to show it on TV". Thats what matters for them at the end anyway.
• Politicians. Some came in from Delhi. They could have seen it all to their hearts content on the TV's but still they decided to come to Mumbai nevertheless.