Bomb blasts in Bangalore
As I type the title, all I can remember is the beautiful place that Bangalore was when I was growing up - quaint, relaxed, and easy. Well, it was none of that this afternoon. I heard about the blasts from my husband who was on the road then. He called and told me about a series of bomb blasts in the city. He also told me that he was coming home. It was about 2.10 pm and I was trying to get my children to nap a little. It was cloudy with mild drizzles, a perfect afternoon to chill out and take it easy was what I had thought. I quickly switched on the new channels on TV and soon saw all the images that the different channels were carrying. The first thing that occurred to me was that the images didn’t seem too grave. It didn’t seem like we had lost too many lives. On listening further, I learnt that one woman was killed and 20 people were injured. What I was trying to gather was the number of blasts. And each channel carried different numbers. DD News said 8 blasts, Times said 4, and Headlines Today said 2! It was too varied. Another channel even said 6. I sent out a bunch of SMSes alerting people of the turn of events and later learnt that some of them heard it first through the SMS. I quickly called whomever I could, just to check how they were doing. I was constantly worried about my husband being on the road. And to reach people on their cells was very difficult. The network was very busy. Luckily, when I was able to reach my husband I heard that the route he was on seemed safe and that there wasn’t a traffic jam of any sort. He was going to be home soon. And that was very relieving.
Over the next hour or so, the news about the blasts seemed slightly more clearer. There were 7 blasts for sure and in this sequence:
1st blast - 1:20 - Madiwala Bus stop
2nd blast - 1:25 - Mysore Road
3rd blast - 1:40 - Adugudi
4th blast - 2:10 - Koramangla
5th blast - 2:25 - Vittal Mallya Road
6th blast - 2:35 - Langford Town
7th blast - 2.35 pm - Richmond Circle
Something like this was to have been expected, given the present day scenario. I mean, already so many Indian cities have been targeted and Bangalore seemed like an obvious target. It is troubling to think of our children and the world today. We have no clue what is on anybody’s mind. We don’t seem to be able to figure out the different intentions and the thoughts behind those intentions. That said, I must admit to constantly being reminded of the goodness in humanity. However hard it may seem to be true, there is immense goodness! And somewhere or the other, things tend to balance themselves out.This is life as we know it now, and it is up to us to make the best of it, and definitely so for our children.
Let’s keep the dead and the injured in our thoughts and prayers.
Lets strive to lead conscientious lives and raise our children to be conscientious.
Love to all!
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