Obviously, it's hugely upsetting to have another tragedy strike Mumbai at such short notice. Fortunately everyone of my family members is alright. Dad and wife had to go to aunt's place for the night.
Coverage on the blogosphere (a few important links here and here) has been excellent. I managed to get the news from TV within 1/2 hr of the blasts. However, I must say, all the Indian channels were slow with their live reporting. In fact, the first pictures came from CNN (courtesy CNN IBN). Why, in spite of being based out of Mumbai, do these news channels struggle to get to the news so late?
On another discordant note, I still don't know why some celebrated bloggers as well as community blogs were quiet during the rains last week. Is it just that the blasts are more exciting and news-worthy.
My earlier posts here, here and here
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
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I guess it is not a sign of indifference that people do not talk much of the rains. It is all about the impact. I do not think the rains have affected as many people psychologically as the blasts have.
Agreed the blasts might be exciting to some, but see look in your case. Though your house was affected, you could salvage most things by keeping them at higher places like stairs etc. But could the blasts victims have done something similar to salvage their lives?
In hindsight, when you compare the blasts to the rains, my grouse looks petty. But my problem is that some reputed bloggers are contributors to some important blog sites - CloudBurst Mumbai and Mumbai Help, to name a few.
But both these blogs were TOTALLY silent. Was there no one who could be helped during the 4-5 days of torrential rains?
Couldn't you allow other people who actually had something to write about the deluge, contribute something?
Their (the blogger as well as these blogs) position of import doesn't allow them to be silent on an urban calamity. The deluge certainly were not a small problem.
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