Dude, look some communal shit…

I walked right into it this afternoon. An innocous phone call to a friend asking if he wanted to have lunch turned into a menacing walk through a mob of angry protestors outside JC Nagar’s police station. You know that feeling? You are walking around, head-bobbing to Missy Elliot’s “Get your freak on” on your i-pod and suddenly find yourself in the midst of communal violence and police in your neighborhood. Or maybe that’s just me.

Nothing too terribly exciting happened. Thankfully. I do dumb things, and I should stop. Like walking into a crowd of angry, riot-ready mob while remaining female. And ipod-wearing. A group of dudes stopped me, and suggested I turn around. I could see the clear road ahead a few steps away. So I said, it’s okay I will just pass through. There were a lot of police around who did nothing to reduce my nervousness. So I passed un-bothered, un-molested and un-harmed. A free pass. I consider myself fairly fearless which is, in fact, a synonym for stupidity. Things change in an instant. It can get crazy scary so quickly. I could have lost my i-pod.

Apparently some sadist painted or poured pig’s blood all over the mosque near our neighborhood. Fucked up. Anyway. No big deal. It will pass.

Update: Here’s the only news article I could find by googling. Which is…WTF. The Section 144 slapped on JC Nagar just means a curfew. It’s a lot less exciting than it sounds. This is the first time I am hearing of any torched buses. I did hear that someone got knifed in Shivaji Nagar–Unconfirmed. Everything is fine this morning though. There’s less of a clog of people in the JC Nagar Main Road, and more traffic elsewhere in the city. There are random police hanging around looking pointless. Otherwise it’s buisness as usual.

~ by Sonia on July 11, 2008.