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Shaken not Stirred

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 Dear Koko,  Today is the day when you returned home early because of a bomb scare! I mean, what world are we living in? I remember when we were in school and we would get an early off or a day off due to heavy rains and we would have the time of our lives. The most "man-made" of these day offs would be a bandh, which was quite a frequent affair since we grew up in a Communist state. Communism meant something back then, seems eons ago though.  But this is new, this is something I have never experienced and hope never to. It was morning and i was on an office call at 11 AM, when my colleague, who also lives in Bangalore pinged me, enquiring of I had been following the news. Of course I had not. Who has the time to look at what's going on in the world when there are beautiful Excels to admire? When I did look at the phone, it was filled with new of several schools in Bangalore getting bomb threats. The news was just developing so much information was not available o the cha...