Seven blasts in Mumbai's local trains. Matunga, Bandra, Khar, Jogeshwari, Borivli, Bhayandar and between Khar-Bandra over the Khar subway. The blasts happened at peakhour when most of Mumbai's working population returns home using the local trains. Reports vary - 35 to 50 people are dead, and countless injured. But to those of us who have seen the local trains, we know that the figures are much much higher.
There are injured and dead people lying on the tracks. No police in the picture, no fire brigades. Its the local people, the shopkeepers and the people wo live close to the house who are coming into help. Carrying bodies both alive and dead in bedhseets. Some tiny bundles, perhaps with limbs within, or maybe children.
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Whom were you trying to target? The working class men who struggle for an inch of space in local trains? The working women who knit and cut vegetables in trains on their way home? Young, dreamy students discussing exams and love? The babies accompanying their mothers, smiling back at the women around them?
Darkness is fast falling. Its raining like it will not stop. Will the rains wash away the blood? Will tomorrow be a new day. Here's to lost lifes and broken dreams.
14 comments:
its so unfair for the people who are killed and such a horrible shock for their friends & folks. 1st the rains, then abu azmi, then shiv sena and now this. what more do people have to endure. when will they let mumbai people live in peace.
Tomorrow morning, people will wake up and catch the early morning train to work. Offices will open on time, flights will take off on schedule, shopkeepers will ply their trade, Mumbai will dust off its soiled clothes and walk with purpose once more.
My prayers and tears are with you.
tears and tributes to all those who died in vain - sakina
@ selma
This city is enhausting my brain.
And the first thing I thought was "Shite! Trains are Selma's fave haunt! I just hope she's....."
hi selma:
nice blog:)
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hi selma, hope to receive a feedback from you soon. i really loved your description of yourself and would like to meet you....so when can v meet? please let me know.
I'm just so relieved to know you're fine.
Hey salma,
Well said, yup whome r they trying to kill? what can anybody get from killing innocuous innocent people? Mumbai will forget all this, as a scar and resume its humdrum. But what about those who have lost their dear ones? What will happen to those who can never travel by train again? Why is somebody getting killed without any mistake of theirs? Who can undrestand this.
Chinmay
it was a pleasant surprise & nice to know your name figuring in an article in the times of india ,on the blogs about the bombay train blasts. the para quoted was "whom were you trying to target......"
jd
@ Anish
We've been asking the same question since years, haven't we?
@ Gaurav
only to be assaulted once again when unprepared?
@ Kush
Kush, I'm super sad.
@ Sakina
I'm relieved that you're far away and safe.
@ N
Its killing me too, N.
@ the harlequin
And here I was so safe at home. Thank you for the thought...
@ temporal said...
Thank you for the link. I kind of like blogging in one place. I already cross post too often :-(
@ Arshan
Thank you. Maybe we can meet at the next bloggers meet.
@ IdeaSmith
I tried calling you. I tried calling up my friends but could harldy reach anybodys landlines or cells. I went to sleep very upset.
@ Chinmay
I wish I had the answers. I wish.
@ jd
really? i did not see it... i will try to find it out and see how my name looks in print :-( i like seeing xerox copies of my notes too.
@ everybody:
i'm super tired of telling my friends "i'm ok i'm ok". my family is ok. my friends are ok. but really, i'm not feeling good. i keep thinking about yesterday on and on, and i'm trying to block it out, by blogging about it, by walking, by sleeping, by reading, by mindless shopping, but its not just working. i feel terribly selfish saying I'm ok. I'm looking hard for some peace of mind.
Can't do much about it... But we CAN blog about it, if nothing else...
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