For whom the bell tolls...

Having one look at Bombay city in the days after the quake one can hardly make out that there has been total devastation in the neighbouring state. Bombay is a city full of Gujaratis and they all have relatives in the neigbouring state and yet life goes on as usual. Though I have noticed a few closed shops and I guess thats an indicator that the people have left for the disator area.

We were so close to the epicentre of the earthquake, it's a very scary thought really. Everyone's suddenly thinking about what if the quake strikes Bombay one day? Are we prepared etc. etc.? I frankly don't think so, I think we'd be one of the wirst prepared for disaster cities in the world. We're too cramped and all the high rise building have been constructed in gross violation of all civic ethics and there aren't many open spaces to run into in case a quake does hit. It's sad but any amount of preparation at this time will be futile, I guess the damage has already been done...even before the quake has hit!

It's highly unimaginable the type of suffering the people in Ahmedabad are undergoing at the moment. It's easy to get fazed and question the very existence of god at times like this. People pray for protection and well being all their life and then they get this! What the quake has done for me though is that it's made me realize how small life really is, how insignificant one's life can be and at the same time how important one person can be! Not even the death of 100,000 people in the earthquake can match up to the expression of sorrow and grief felt when Prncess Di passed away. Now we really know what "Make the most of life, life is short" means. People fight for decades over territorial disputes and wage wars but tomorrow we could all be dead and those things will not matter. Guess we've realized that the time is ticking away on the clock of our lives too, and I'm not even 20 yet!!!!!

"Don't ask for whom the bell tolls, for it tolls for thee..."

I downloaded this beautiful trance number yesterday from Napster. I think Trance music is BEAUTIFUL! I'm totally hooked to trance! Bobby and I were saying that if we were in Europe we'd purchase all the equipment and we'd make our own verion of trance music, called Inditrance or Pakitrance, we even thought a name for the band "Sufianna". Dreams, Dreams...

Not much else is going on here at the moment. I'd like to thank everyone who e-mailed me in the days after the earthquake. It feels real good to know that there are people out there who care and are concerned. Thanks very much for the concern...

Goodbye..God bless..