Floating Sun » blasts http://floatingsun.net Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:53:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The outrage of a Mumbaikar http://floatingsun.net/2006/07/19/the-outrage-of-a-mumbaikar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-outrage-of-a-mumbaikar http://floatingsun.net/2006/07/19/the-outrage-of-a-mumbaikar/#comments Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:33:51 +0000 Diwaker Gupta http://floatingsun.net/blog/2006/07/19/680/ Related posts:
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Well written, if cynical, satire on the Mumbai lasts: [[http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=71288|over at ExpressIndia]].

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Please stop calling it 7/11. Its not funny or witty and this is not a game and we are not playing catch-up-with-the-US.

Some useful links:

* [[http://ia.rediff.com/news/blasts06.html|Rediff's coverage]]
* [[http://www.desipundit.com/2006/07/11/bomb-blasts-in-bombay/|Roundup from the Blogosphere and elsewhere by Desipundit]]
* [[http://mumbaihelp.blogspot.com/|Mumbai Help]]
* [[http://pajamasmedia.com/2006/07/mumbai_blasts.php|Constantly updated page from Pajamas Media]]

And how are our government websites doing? Head over to [[http://www.india.gov.in/|National Portal of India]] — its hard to find out if anything has even changed. The “scrolling” news update talks about Hero Honda quarterly profits. Oh wait, over at the far right there’s a press release “PM condems bomb blasts” — I haven’t seen a more redundant and rhetorical press release. //Of course// the PM has condemned the blasts!!!! He can’t approve of them, can he? He’s the god-damn Prime Minister you know!!!

A search for “bombay blasts” on the same site gives **NO RESULTS**. Beat that. NO RESULTS? Yes, I know people will tell me that at the time of such a crisis, the Government has better things to do than update the website. Well, for everyone’s sake, I hope thats true. Until then, head over to Yahoo/Google/Technorati to find resources/information regarding the blasts.

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