Here in Pune

Well, I'm here in Pune, in a good hotel, and finally have reasonable net access. As Judi said, my hotel was just to the blasts, probably right at the geometric center, come to think of it, but each was a kilometer or so away. I'd been walking around Delhi on Saturday for about 5-6 hours but returned to the hotel at 2pm. The first bomb went off at 5:30pm so I was really safe. I did talk to one guy at the conference who heard the first blast, up by Connaught Place. I think I probably heard the second one closer to my hotel. The news said that a bus conductor alertly noticed a suspicious package and stopped the bus, evacuated the passengers and then the driver threw the bomb off the bus. Unfortunately the driver was critically injured as were about 4 other people but many lives were saved by the conductor.

I say that I might have heard the second bomb because there were many large fireworks being let off at the same time because of the Diwali holiday.

The pictures of the bombed areas were truely hard to see. Some of the people died horrible deaths. Whoever your God is, I cannot believe he/she/it would want this.

Tim