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I'm a non-mumbaite. I don't know anybody who was harmed in what happened today.
So how do I explain this feeling of crushing grief enveloping me?
My country is burning, in the most sophisticated, well thought out attack since WTC.
This is so much closer to home.

I don't want the world to go on, I don't want anybody to smile. I want to scream. I want to do something..anything. I want to make it right, somehow.

I am scared of praying that everybody I know is fine. Everytime I do that, it means cancelling out someone else's wishes...that everybody THEY know are fine.