Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Bombs in Bombay : Check on XLers in the city

As most of you would know by now. 7 bomb blasts have hapenned on the Local trains on the Western line between 6:00 & 6:30 pm.

Quite a few dead and injured being reported.

To add to the confusion, phone lines have been jammed and its quite difficult to get through to people by calling them or sms. Some internet lines are working. I hope mine holds on for awhile.

As of now,
Central & Harbour Lines running
Long Distance Trains Halted
Western Line stalled. Might not start again till tomorrow.
Special BEST buses are supposed to have been deployed to ferry commuters from Churchgate to Andheri.

38 casualties at Hinduja Hospital.
Some at Cooper Hospital, KEM Hospital & Sion Hospital.

Thought of letting XLers who are connected leave a message here to tell friends & relatives that they are ok. If you have heard from any XLer in Mumbai who is safe, please post a comment here.

21 comments:

  1. Karishma Pais (Kim) 99 batch & Brajesh Bajpai 96 batch safe in Juhu

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  2. Hari Menon 96 safe in Delhi. Sonalee Panda 96 safe in Bandra

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  3. All safe :

    96 Batch
    Dinu Poonacha
    Puneet Mishra

    99 batch
    Diya Kapoor Mishra

    2004-2006
    Gautam Sood
    Mohan Vamsi
    Madhurita Sengupta
    Chatradhari Chakrovaty
    Abhishek tripathi

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  4. I am fine. Thanks for your mail.

    Amit Gupta
    BMD 98

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  5. There have also been attacks in Srinagar and media reports indicate that the two are linked.

    Phones are up as of now, though in a limited capacity. 145 odd dead in mumbai, 250 injured.

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  6. Indu Gopalalkrishnan (2004-06) and Prajna Ojha (2004-06) are safe

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  7. Hey Karishma
    Thought I will let you know that Prash, Sandy and Udayan are OK, as I spoke to them in the morning.

    99 batch

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  8. dominic thomas xlri alumni replying to the kind enquiry by you and want to convey that his two sons in mumbai are safe and all are well.
    thank you
    thomas
    Chennai

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  9. what a sad situation?
    terror attacks like these has been going on for years now, 2003 was the worst, in the recent past; it had stopped for a while and things were chugging along quite nicely....

    I am at a total loss for words on how to even begin thinking about these things any longer...depresses me lot!

    It pains me a lot and my heart goes out to all those who suffer. It seems so pointless to get up in the morning and see this "blasted" over the front page of Straits Times.

    thanks karishma for making the roll call - excellent idea - makes us share information fast and offer a few moments of our time to think and pray about these things.

    hope your near dear and close ones are safe and let us all spend a few minutes in silence to those innocent souls and who perished and whose families are devastated.

    just when things are rolling in India - now this - literally de-rails the economy and the spirit.

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  10. Mumbai will get back to norman by morning... it already must be... it is a sense of deep loss and we have a great social structure to give emotional, moral and financial support. May not be easily ariculated with spreadsheets... but yes the social fabric is intact.

    That is the India, we are talking of....We have been attacked for 200 years... invaders from afghan, imperialists, rulers and ghaznis of the world...and the reslient India... comes out stronger each time.... unlike most western economies.

    I personally doubt if this will have any long term impact on economy... may be a few travel bans from the US at best... what else can we expect Sam...

    India will continue to dominate inspite of these "brief interrupts".

    What is saddening... is the way a CNBC and western media, started giving a religious overtone to the terrorists within minutes..what the heck do they do they expect... another communal riots.
    .....these $%$% western journalists continue to be a bigger terror than the real terrorists....

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  11. Thanks Kim for this

    Indeed very sad that such incidents are occuring yet again

    Take care
    Regards
    Robin Robbins
    Principal Consultant
    -Hemisphere Consulting Pte Ltd
    -Asianic Psychologists Press Singapore

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  12. i hope...

    we o-oo-oll have become... comfortably nuuumb...

    Ganesh Iyer
    FPM 2000

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  13. Karisma,
    Thank you for doing this!
    Aruna
    BMD 95

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  14. Unfortunately, this time it did not happen to faceless,unknown people. One employee in my company lost her husband who had his head blown off , another ex-employee , a bright research analyst lies in the hospital breathing through a ventilator with broken ribs and perforated lungs barely alive. One employee in my wife's company lost his father.

    Anurag Shrivastava

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  15. Thank you for the news Karishma.
    Please keep it up.
    Murthy Gullapalli
    BME (1986)

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  16. There is a list of all injured at www.mumbaipolice.org in case anyone wants to check it out.

    Surit.

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  17. Hi All..........

    Can I get contact details of all the XLers....of 96 to 2000 batch.........regarding a meet........

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  18. #18
    Who are u ?
    What meet r u planning to arrange ?
    How do I send across the list to u ?
    Hope u weren't planning on me posting it as a comment here. Thats about 600 names.....

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  19. Hi....

    Thanks for the reply.....

    U can mail me at : tauras_singh1984@indiatimes.com......


    Kindly provide me with the contact details and batch........

    Your help would be highly appreciated........

    Thanks........

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  20. Hello....

    Can I get the details of all the XLers... please.....

    Its important and urgent too.....

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