Mumbai

[tzikeh]

Anyone in Mumbai, or anyone with friends and relations in Mumbai, I hope all are safe.

There is a Tweet Grid for those who wish to follow it live: http://tweetgrid.com/grid?l=0&q1=Mumbai

Otherwise, regular updates at nytimes.com and all other news sites, I'm sure.

What can anyone say.

Comments

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

That picture on CNN is crazed. The head of counter-terrorism in Mumbai was one of the ones killed, and I'd really like to find the story on that.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I'm sure this will dominate the news cycle for a few days. We'll learn much more about all this.

What's so upsetting is the photos of the *children* wielding AK-47s:

http://www.mahalo.com/Image:MumbaiTerror_LH_112608.png

http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshowpics/3762109.cms

[raine-wynd.livejournal.com]

Having spent the last year immersed in Indian culture for the last year thanks to work, the definition of "what's a child" there is not the same as it might be elsewhere. Not sayin' it's right, but child labor's been a huge problem in India and most of the Asia.

[sol-se.livejournal.com]

Holy shit.

[raine-wynd.livejournal.com]

I'm a little alarmed; my boss was supposed to leave this afternoon to attend a wedding there with his wife, followed by business.