At Nita’s blog, an email from a friend who was in the Taj on the 26th:

I wont go much into details of what happened that night. To cut the long story short – I was holed up in my room at the Taj hotel the fateful night of the terrorist attack. Managed to escape by the skin of my teeth at around 4 am – in sheer denial of allowing fire and smoke to swallow me. By gods grace I managed to make the run down 6 floors and some few metres without the devil in my way. You can imagine how happy I am to be here typing this away. ( For anyone who wants to know the gore – let me know. I have the full story and transcripts of my SMSes recorded for posterity – to keep my anger burning and reminding me of my purpose)

I thought I’d leave a few messages which might be of help to all good people.