I was in Mumbai waiting to board a flight to Bangalore when I heard the news about the blasts in Bangalore. I knew that my wife and daughter were out in the city having a day out and soon I received a message from my daughter that she was scared. The phone lines were jammed but I was so lucky that I managed to contact family and friends and infact even managed to pass messages between them. The tragedy in Ahmedabad made sad reading and viewing. The mystery however is that why was Bangalore spared ? After so many blasts in the past in various cities, I find the reasoning that it was a dry/test run for Ahmedabad rather amateurish. I hope that all politicians will at least now wake up and look at INDIA and not their own parties, idealogy, vote banks. But some things never cease to amaze me and bring a smile to my face. Some are as follows. One was the crowd of onlookers surrounding the policeman clad in bomb disposal suit as he tried to defuse the bomb in Bangalore. Aren't peopl...
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