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Sad news from India. There have been 7 blasts in Jaipur in the Old city area at 7:30 pm today. This area is a huge hub for shopping, tourists, jewellery trade etc. Jaipur is a city where I grew up and I have distinct memories of walking down the lanes being shown on TV right now. One blast occurred right near the famous Hawa Mahal. Till now 10 have been declared dead and 100 injured. (These numbers are expected to unfortunately rise.)

Just as Bangalore is the IT hub of India; Jaipur, Agra and Delhi form the Golden Triangle for Tourism in India. Jaipur is a very peaceful and historical city...Now home of the rocking Rajasthan Royals Cricket team in Indian Premier League. Whatever has happened is extremely sad and quite obviously a frustrated attack on the growing economic clout of the city and of India. Hollywood goes to Jaipur to get jewellery design done for its movies, the last famous one was Troy.

Cities of Delhi and Mumbai, are on high alert.

Here is the first flickr photostream about the blasts that I found on Flickr.

Below is a picture taken by babasteve of the famous Hawa Mahal. You can see more pictures of Jaipur at Flickr.