Chez Moi

Bloggers and writers better at their stuff than me have been writing about the atrocities happening in Mumbai now. I am not going to even try to talk about something I cannot even begin to comprehend. But there is just one thing I want to say - let us not use this as yet another reason to cast stones at others in the name of religion. Like Aamir Khan writes in his blog, terrorists have no religion. Spreading terror, creating divide is their goal so let us not fall into their trap.

This is an attack on India, against Indians not Hindus, Muslims or Jews or Christians. Let us not make it into something uglier than it is.

Some great articles on this tragedy:

Amit Varma’s eye-witness account

Great Bong’s thoughts on the tragedy

Mad Momma’s post

Amrita’s baffled piece

Kiran writes of her terror

Naren’s advice to the Mumbai police

Meanwhile, Cyclone Nisha has taken a fancy to Tamil Nadu and is dowsing the city with a never-ending supply of rains. Hop over to Itchy’s blog for some great photos of Chennai roads. Friends who live in ground floor houses have all been forced to flee their homes and take refuge with generous relatives or guest houses till the waters abate. There were also some reports of people getting electrocuted due to the water getting into the electrics.

It is unbelievable that a metro boasts of such crappy infrastructure. Nice to see the taxes at work! When will change come to India, I wonder

My staple food these days are rice, curd and maavadu pickle. No matter whatever else I chuck, I can at least keep this combo down (touchwood!) With P, I subsisted mainly on pasta and S has taken to commenting, ‘this one seems to be an Iyengar maami!’

But now, my diet is under attack.

Not by concerned dietitians or anything of that sort - but by the Gods of Indian climate. Rice exports from India have been banned and I hear that this year, the mango season also has gone kaput thanks to erratic weather and get this - ice formation on the tender raw mangoes! Ice!

What the hell am I going to eat? HALP!