There has been a horrified reaction on the net to Mumbai’s nightmarish bomb blasts and blogs are full of this mood.

Amitabh Bachchan leads in expressing anger in his blog. “Bombay is in terrible-terrible situation,” writes Big B in his blog.

The superstar is horrified with ‘ineptitude of the authorities’ and feels so insecure by the events that he is compelled to pull his 0.32 revolver,
load it and put it under his my pillow, he says.

Actor Sharmila Tagore finds the present state of Mumbai ‘devastating’. Decades ago when she arrived in Mumbai, she lived in the Taj for ‘months together’.

“When I saw the hotel burning, I felt as if my house was burning,” says the actor.

Actor Aamir Khan feels indebted to security agencies and writes that he prays for the brave officers of Mumbai Police, Indian Army, Navy, and the NSG.

However, Aamir ‘dreads’ to think ‘how various political parties will use this tragedy to further their political careers’.

Meanwhile, Mumbai’s best selling author Suketu Mehta believes that the Maximum City was attacked because of its wealth, and Taj symbolised that wealth.

“Taj is to Bombay what Empire State Building is to New York. Ordinary guests needed inner confidence to project to the gatekeepers. And had to convince themselves that they belong there. But the terrorists required none of that. They marched into the lobby with confidence, in rage,” he writes.

Author Shashi Tharoor says on a positive note. “Bombs and bullets cannot destroy India - as long as the country remains a pluralistic society.”