Tuesday, 12th July, 1845 hrs - Hiren, my room partner came and asked, "Did you hear that there has been blasts across Mumbai?" I jumped to check on IBN Live and NDTV and could not believe my eyes. Six blasts across the city and in a span of just around 40 mins. As millions across this city, I was immediately worried about my sister who was around Mahalaxmi at that time. And as we all know by now, the cell phone lines were jammed beyond hope. And I was left only with the feeling of acute helplesness. After endless redials, I was lucky enough to get through to her and know that she was safe and sound and in control.
All day today, the entire media is glaring with headlines that the city is limping back to normalcy overnight. Mumbai is an amazing city of resilience and I should say, has a high elasticity coefficient to calamities, natural or artificial.
But what remains to be thought is how long will Mumbaiites continue to be resilient? How long will be our security, intelligence and other agencies continue to make temporary and short term patch ups?
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