Terror strikes...

The past few weeks/months would have been busy time for the terrorists with numerous bombs being detonated across Ahmedabad, Surat and Bangalore. Also yesterday, I read about a bomb blast in Istanbul, Turkey killing atleast 17 people

Time and again, our security has breached. As these bombs are being unearthed one after the other, cant help but imagining that, at this moment, there would be some people working endlessly producing more of those.

It makes me wonder what the mind of terrorist will be like. What is it that would make them heart-less and so immune to the pain and suffering they are causing? Whose battle are they fighting? As can be seen in any of the bomb-cases, it was not a big-explosive and was not capable of resulting in many deaths.. They were not aimed at mass-killing but were aimed at a different & more dangerous level of killing … of the spirit, of the zeal to live, of the freedom to live

The terrorists have chosen to attack where it hurts the most – the Heart. They have succeeded in inflicting fear in our hearts… fear of moving around freely, fear of losing the loved one.. The bombs do not just take numerous lives but they take away the ‘life’ from so many other lives, connected with the deceased. How many wives become widows, husbands widowers, children rendered orphans, parents losing their child, losing dear friends.. For all those affected, the world changes in an instant..

May the souls of the departed rest in peace and I pray to God to give strength to the families and friends of the deceased

And hope the security personnel get to some strict action against these men of terror.

Tidbits from my world..

It’s been a month since last blog. Not that, I don’t have anything to write. These days, I am all “eyes and ears” to whats happening nearby and whether the same can be converted to some blog !! Have to admit, this Blog-thing has ensured that mind doesn’t doze off!! So there have been many things on which I had thought of scribbling something on, but somehow couldn’t manage the time and resources to do that..

So let me just summarise few of the events in my life in the past month.. none-the life changing or life-threatening ones.. but still, worth mentioning!!

Pune (July 11-12)
Been to Pune with Friends for marriage of Aakanksha… Had a wonderful time…. Wish her a Happy Married Life !!

Returned on 12th in car and .. that’s when .. our car got stuck !!

Had studied in school that “terrestrial craters are formed when a large meteorid, asteroid or a comet smashes into a planet”. We started wondering which one of these three were responsible for the big hole that was found in between the road near Shilphata just off the Mumbai-Pune Expressway enroute to Dombivli… But it turned out to be a fourth factor - the “efficiency of the work done by the governmental authorities” !! And there were plenty of such craters on this road, so much that a satellite picture may even think that they are capturing the images of the moon

After we exchanged our customary “niceties” on the governmental apathy, we had to get down and lift the car from the hole and put it back on track. All this ensured we spent about 1.5 hours in the filthy water that had filled in that “crater” !!

Kerala (July 16-20)
Been to Kerala to meet my grandmothers and my great-grandmother as well as other relatives to seek their blessings before my marriage, as they won’t be able to grace the occasion… Was a short and good trip
.... Plenty much to talk of Kerala .. maybe in another blog !!

Flight to Madrid via Paris (July 22)
Just a routine flight back to what-has-been-recently ‘my second home’, Madrid… since April, this was my fifth visit to the city!!
For the first time though, I traveled by Air France coming through Paris. Two mentionable things in the trip:
a) Saw Yuvraj Singh at the Mumbai airport. He walked past me, not once but twice, maybe in a desperate attempt to grab my attention. But then, I chose not to get disturbed as I can’t be talking to everybody naa, leave alone giving batting advices to all !!
b) As I was traveling via Paris, I was hoping to see the only major attraction, I have heard and seen in movies – the Eiffel Tower. Well, I did manage to see it.. but from some 3,000 ft above the ground… Maybe that’s too far off to actually admire its beauty.. as all I could recollect from that Wonder-of-the-World was the numerous electric towers back in India !!

That’s me for now .. at Madrid.. busy with the Spanish life... and so on and so forth.. till I write again…

Adios

Sunil