Bomb blasts in Bombay
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There have been a series of blasts on trains in Bombay. Various bloggers are posting updates on Mumbai Help.
Sepia Mutiny and Ultrabrown (in Bombay) have constantly updated posts on the blasts.
Pajamas Media has tons of national and international links (constantly updated) to stories on the blasts. All fingers point to Islamic terrorists and yet again, it is the 11th of the month. Why 11?
Via Mumbai Help, see this for sending SMSes via email. Use this wiki to leave phone numbers to be contacted if you can’t get through.
Dilip takes a quick trip to Bandra station to assess the damage and then heads over to the [Holy Family] hospital to donate blood.
Over at Metroblogging Mumbai, Arzan has posted a host of videos on the train experience in Mumbai, including a first hand account of the blasts.
More from the Western blogosphere, Gateway Pundit has been updating his post with news and arrest stories.
Neha has an excellent round-up of reactions from bloggers over at Global Voices. I am taking the liberty of ‘borrowing’ some links here. After the jump:
Gaurav has a timeline from the time blasts occured until midnight IST and hopes that with the new dawn comes more restraint and healing.
Thariel over at Contrapuntal similarly hopes that there isn’t a backlash and feels sorry for Bombay for being a easy target for terrorists.
Scout feels frustrated at being so far away from home especially when terror strikes rendering you helpless.
A Flickr set pops up almost instantly with photos of destruction; not to mention mangled bloodied steel at Bombay stations. Do not click if you feel queasy about blood.
Atanu says, politicians are back to what they do best, making lame statements.
JK at Varnam is collating news stories trying to pinpoint the perpetrators of this attack. Consensus is on a mastermind outside the Kashmir Valley given the “level of sophistication and organization required to conduct such a widespread and coordinated attack.”
ABC News Now anchor Hari Sreenivasan reports on the blasts while giving a pithy introduction to life on Mumbai trains.
Gawker discovers that a certain American conservative has been living in a cave until the Mumbai blasts happened. But statements like:
It looks like al-Qaeda or an Islamofascist offshoot has decided to add another nation to its blood enemies… What motivated AQ to go after India? It’s hardly the first country one associates with the West, and many Muslims live within the majority-Hindu nation.
…deserve fisking.
Edit Copy is surprised that ‘experts’ are showing their ignorance in trying associate these blasts with Al Qaeda. These claims may not be totally wrong as Islamic terrorists gradually collaborate to achieve common aims.
Uma MD shares a wonderful story by Somini Sengupta on ‘train friends’.
Suketa Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found shares his thoughts on the blast with Washington Post.
With the heavy toll in Bombay, let us not forget the five bombings in Srinagar aimed at innocent tourists.
Email us if you have a personal account to share or original reporting. Please refrain from sending us links to post that have opinions unless they differ from what has already been said.
19 comments
gautamshi
July 11th, 2006, 10:30 am | #
Reports indicate the shiv sena volunteers seem to be out in full force in aiding the wounded and doing what they do best- Serving the Mumbaikars at a time of crisis.
Mridula
July 11th, 2006, 1:31 pm | #
I think this should be a sticky post for a while?
Patrix
July 11th, 2006, 2:25 pm | #
Mridula, it is now.
Rezwan
July 11th, 2006, 5:31 pm | #
Let god give courage to the family of the victims so that they can overcome this atrocity. My heart is with all the Mumbaites.
Let us join our hands against these non-human terrorists and turn our anger into actionable measures so that those involved cannot escape justice.
Pickled Politics
July 11th, 2006, 6:04 pm | #
Blasts in Mumbai…
Terror struck Mumbai’s lifeline seven times in 11 minutes when the first-class compartments of local trains to the city’s western suburbs were ripped apart by powerful blasts. At least 150 people were killed and over 600 injured.
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The blasts…
Suyog
July 11th, 2006, 9:07 pm | #
Spare a thought for Srinagar too.
Amidst the Mumbai Mayhem, we should also remember that there 5 blasts in Srinagar, the same morning. It killed 6 people, and however less it may seem in comparision with tragedy to Mumbai loss, lives are precious and need to be remembered and respected.
Kyun.org
July 11th, 2006, 10:04 pm | #
Mumbai Bomb Blasts…
I am stunned!
Just got off the phone with my Mom and she tells me that very quickly the trains are coming back up. People are getting back to work and there is a sense of remorse as well as a defiance to not let the terrorists win.
Both my parents are …
Mridula
July 11th, 2006, 11:24 pm | #
If you feel strongly about the images of the dead beamed with scant discretion on the Indian TV, protest, at least on your blog. I am willing to aggregate the links.
http://www.gonomad.com/traveltalesfromindia/2006/07/mumbali-blasts-gorey-images-on-indian.html
Radhika Nair
July 12th, 2006, 1:13 am | #
Let God show those Terrorists the right path to “Heaven”…Not through inhuman acts or extremism…..
“Holly War” against innocent people won’t lead them to God…..”JEHAD” ahould be against the corrupt politicians not against lay-men like you or me….
SS
July 12th, 2006, 5:29 am | #
Suyog… you spoke my mind. I sometimes feel quite amazed at the lethargy of human mind. Just because Kashmir experiences these scenes every other day, it does not make their misery tolerable and non-comment worthy.
Chetan
July 12th, 2006, 7:18 am | #
It does coincide with the London bombings of 7-11-2005. Pity, our intelligence sux!
Chris
July 12th, 2006, 8:50 am | #
Thank you for the link. I’ve only read a few books on the subject, but al Qaeda has demonstrated a pattern of involving itself with other organizations to lend assistance to planning, funding, etc. It is my opinion that the Islamic extremists around the world are more and more globalized in their thought process. For this reason, regionalizing the explanations for the violence misses an important and alarming trend in global terrorism.
pinks
July 12th, 2006, 9:18 am | #
hi..heard abt it too..it is very depressing..even i have posted smthng abt it on my blog..chk ven ur free…hey n one more thing can u tell me how that bar appears everytime u click on a link..i want it too…
The Great Ganesha
July 12th, 2006, 11:57 am | #
stay strong and keep laughing, fellow bombayites… we will prevail…
Manpreet
July 12th, 2006, 1:05 pm | #
Very sad day indeed! Shame on the cowards who did this… !!
BTW, in India, we follow the dd/mm (not mm/dd) syntax.. why is desipundit, and our media too copying the west (as in 9/11) by quoting it as 7/11.. and not 11/7?
kulmuhi
July 12th, 2006, 1:46 pm | #
Kuch Batay….
kuch ankahi batay reh gaye
Kuch adhuray lamhay reh gaye
Aray yaar woh khayalat hi adhuray reh gaye
Chodo kya ‘rang’egay basanti’ ko
jub haalat hi haath say reh gaye
Aaj hi tou usko milna tha
ha bhayee aaj hi ki mulaquat tay huee thee
Do saal say ek doosray ko train mai dekhtay thay
Ek din hosla kur kay baat kur hi li
woh mulaquaat bhi adhuri reh gayee
Bus jaldi college khatam kur lu
phir ma baap kay liye woh gadi looga
kuch aisa hi soch raha tha ki
soch soch mai hi reh gayee
“Mujhay tumhari shakal hi nahi dekhni”
Esa kyu keh kur nikli aaj woh
Pyaar say jaati tou aacha hota
Zindagi bhur dil pur uskay yahi baat reh gayee
Aray yaar 8 mahinay hogaye
bus ek mahina reh gaya
Phir mai usko pet pay leta kur khela karuga
woh khilanay valay haath hi na reh gaye
sigbhu
July 12th, 2006, 1:47 pm | #
Manpreet, perhaps it is because DesiPundit is unwittingly playing ball with those who want to force every searing image of these bomb blasts into our skulls, have us properly conditioned, so that a “suitable” “response” will not raise too many eyebrows from people with consciences still intact.
Divya
July 14th, 2006, 4:44 am | #
Ashamed to be an Indian. The world´s largest democracy and look at what we have managed to elect as an administration. An incompetent and corrupt government for whom its citizen´s lives are mere numbers.
Hundreds of thousands have died in Kashmir for over two decades now and it took a 9/11 or a 7/11 for the world to even acknowledge the hurt or anger that has become a way of life for us Indians.
While I used to atleast hope earlier, I am now convinced that our government will never learn, not until the entire country perishes and is taken over by a said minority. What a shame?
Gursharan Sidhu
July 14th, 2006, 3:36 pm | #
I am thankful to God that no political party has resorted, at least till now, to whipping up communal frenzy in the aftermath of the serial bomb blasts in Mumbai’s local trains.
Is it not even more unfortunate than the acts of terrorism that such a thought should enter the minds of citizens in a country that prides itself on being a secular, democratic republc?
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