तेर्रोरिस्ट्स इन Mumbai

It's been a stressful night. There have been a whole series of bomb blasts. And this time they targetted two 5 star hotels, the Taj Mahal hotel just opp. the Gateway of India and the Trident, formerly the Oberois. Since our office is close to the Taj we could actually hear some of the blasts. Over 100 people have died. Some of the dead include staff of the two hotels and police personnel, including the Anti-Terrorist Squad chief, Hemant Karkera. Another famous 'encounter' specialist, Vijay Salaskar also died. It's 9am now in India and there are still hostages in the hotels.

The terrorists are supposed to have come in by boats (rubberised dinghy boats). There have been blasts in other parts of the city too but this time there have been more in South Mumbai. There has never been anything like this, on such a large scale, in Mumbai. These terrorists are foreigners I think, and not Indians. Some of the terrorists also holed up in a building, Nariman House, in Colaba.

My brother-in-law Vinod Shekhar, who is a Municipal Corporator and mother-in-law, MLA, Annie Shekhar went on rounds last night after some of the blasts. We didn't want him to go especially since it's been just two months since he had a major heart surgery but he said that since it's his constituency it was his responsibility to do so. He also went to the hospitals later. I don't think he slept for even 2 hours cos early in the morning, before 5 am he was called to the Chief Minister's house for a meeting. They are either there or at Mantralaya.

There are Rapid Action Force personnel, commandos and the military has been callled in but so far there's been no solution to the problem.

I feel so bad about what's been happening in the state of Maharashtra. So the following piece that someone forwarded to me is quite appropriate I feel. Here it is:

...SUPPORTING RAJ THACKEREY...

...I GOT THIS AS A FORWARD...(...SO TRUE...)


Dear All,
We all should support Raj Thackeray and take his initiative ahead by
doing more....

We should teach our kids that if he is second in class, don't study
harder.. just beat up the student coming first and throw him out of
the school
Parliament should have only Delhiites as it is located in Delhi
Prime-minister, president and all other leaders should only be from Delhi
No Hindi movie should be made in Bombay .

Only Marathi At every state border, buses, trains, flights should be stopped and
staff changed to local men.
All Maharashtrians working abroad or in other states should be sent
back as they are SNATCHING employment from Locals.
Lord Shiv, Ganesha and Parvati should not be worshiped in our state as
they belong to north ( Himalayas )
Visits to Taj Mahal should be restricted to people from UP only.

Relief for farmers in Maharashtra should not come from centre because
that is the money collected as Tax from whole of India , so why should
it be given to someone in Maharashtra ?
Let's support Kashmiri Militants because they are right in killing and
injuring innocent people for the benefit of their state and
community..
Let's throw all MNCs out of Maharashtra , why should they earn from
us? We will open our own Maharashtra Microsoft, MH Pepsi and MH
Marutis of the world.
Let's stop using cellphones, emails, TV, foreign Movies and dramas.
James Bond should speak Marathi
We should be ready to die hungry or buy food at 10 times higher price
but should not accept imports from other states.
We should not allow any industry to be setup in Maharashtra because
all machinery comes from outside
We should STOP using local trains... Trains are not manufactured by
Marathi manoos and Railway Minister is a Bihari
Ensure that all our children are born, grow, live and die without ever
stepping out of Maharashtra , then they will become true Marathi's