I know. I wrote more about it in the post but then deleted all of that because it has all been said so many times before. So many people have lost someone they loved; and all for nothing. For nothing.
I remember about 3 years ago when a colleague was in that underground mall in Connaught Place (sp?) and missed a blast in that area by 24 hours. If her flight from Delhi had been delayed by a day, she could have been a statistic.
India, like many places where religion, culture and politics clash easily, is always exciting yet terrifying at the same time.
Virtually no place in the subcontinent is safe anymore; there's nowhere to "escape" to. Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan all have their own terrorist-related worries. Nepal has the Maoists. Tibet has the Chinese army. It has me panicking sometimes, to think of the years to come and how it may all get even worse. Your colleague must have spent some time thanking her lucky stars!
She had no idea as she only found out once she got home and we told her. I also had a friend who was directly affected by the bomb blast at the Marriott Hotel in Jakarta a few years back. I met him a couple of days later when we ran into each other by coincidence about 1.5 days after the incident at the transit lounge at Singapore's Changi Airport. He looked ok but he did admit to not sleeping too well after seeing some of the stuff he saw immediately following the blast. He was on the 7th floor - the lobby was decimated. You can only imagine the carnage.
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So many people have lost someone they loved; and all for nothing. For nothing.
I remember about 3 years ago when a colleague was in that underground mall in Connaught Place (sp?) and missed a blast in that area by 24 hours. If her flight from Delhi had been delayed by a day, she could have been a statistic.
India, like many places where religion, culture and politics clash easily, is always exciting yet terrifying at the same time.
Your colleague must have spent some time thanking her lucky stars!