RSS FeedsBlasts in Delhi
Oct 29, 2005
The two main blasts occured in Paharganj and Sarojini Nagar and strangely, we were contemplating visiting them in the evening. The only reason we didn’t go was because it was already 5:30 pm and considering the evening traffic, we could have never made it before 7. We need to buy curtains for the new apartment. I had gone there to take the measurements and had asked Alka to be ready so that as soon as I came back, we would leave for one of these market places. I was already feeling that we were late and should postpone it till the next day, but it was Alka who expressed that we should postpone it, and instead, visit the local Saturday market to purchase crockery and cutlery. In the afternoon while going to NOIDA I had noticed a roadside shop selling mattresses for beds. So first I took Alka there when we went to the Saturday market. While waiting in the car I received a call from my friend who is in Bangalore. He advised us to go home because blasts were occurring in Delhi at various places. It’s the festive season. Immediately the images of devastating stampedes flashed through my mind. Once home, we kept experiencing the ghastly images on TV.
Just day before yesterday I was in Paharganj purchasing a floor mattress. Some of the lanes are so narrow and crowded that you have to squeeze yourself in. In times of such tragedies, one cannot imagine how fire tenders and ambulances can reach there.
When I was in school the Sarojini Nagar market used to be our regular haunt. We used to bunk classes and spend time wandering around aimlessly, stopping at this stall or that stall, crowding the magazine seller who discretely kept adult magazines with him, sitting upon the pulleys and chatting. Every corner of the market was like home.
It’s chilling to see such familiar places dotted with blood spots and blown up bodies.
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