Hope all is well in blog land fellas! I'm still to read all friends' posts but gimme time. I'll get on to it soon. 
I came back yesterday- back to city life after finishing research work on my Thesis. Now all that remains on that side is editing. I will write about my daily travel and experiences from the next post on wards. It was certainly an enlightening journey. 
Life is a chaos what with the call centre I'd mentioned in the earlier post still acting up. I have taken a solemn vow never to work with.
I should mention the terror that had struck my city, Ahmedabad just a little than a week ago where hundreds were injured and more than fifty killed. In the series of bomb blasts, Ahmedabad seems to have been placed with maximum bombs until now- 16 bombs at the last count. (one went off outside the hospital which killed and injured many). A day before it happened in my city, serial bomb blasts had been reported in Bangalore which had left several maimed and dead.
So many innocent lives wasted for naught but for the enjoyment of a killer group called 'Indian Mujahideen' who I think, are a menace to all and good to no body. No Indian worth his salt would ever hurt another like this. For that matter, they can't even be called Muslims! From what I know, Islam teaches peace and brotherhood and talks of forgiveness. Where do these guys read about terrorising people in Koran, killing people in the name of religion?
It's really tragic to see so many people becoming victims of Terrorism again in Ahmedabad. 8 years ago, there'd been riots in the name of religion where the entire State had been devastated badly, both financially and emotionally.
Time and again it is seen that our weak policies are responsible for terrorists raising their ugly heads again & again. I say,let there be strong laws to deal with them. Where are those People who talk about Secularism only to get their votes? Whenever injustice takes place against a community, the Human Rights Commission becomes concerned and their concerns are heard by the media/news or in higher courts.
Why is no one concerned any more about death of so many families? I say families because with each dying person, a family also dies. It has simply become a number of deaths- people, lives; don't they count any more?
*Tries to get a grip on herself*
We're on a status of High Alert all over the country until the 15th of August; our Independence Day. I just hope no other city goes through this again.
In other news, there's been some relief pouring in- in the form of rains. 
Farmers had started wearing long faces and frowns since it was declared that we were still wanting for a decent rainfall. I think farmers are going to be the happier lot in coming weeks.
Time for me to go and splash some raindrops on my face. 
skip2468
Yes, with terrorism now frequent in China I wonder why all major world powers don,t combine to wipe out terrorism once and for all.