Superstition rides on quake wave

Meena Natarajan of Thakurli says a friend phoned her saying the Dwarka Shankaracharya had asked women to tie the yellow thread.. She in turn informed all her friends.

Laxmi Iswar, a bank employee says she too was flooded with phone calls by several friends, relatives and colleagues. As she was anxious to avoid any further calamity to the nation she acquiesced and tied the thread. 8220;It was only today that we came to know it is nothing but rumours. Someone got in touch with the authorities in Tirupati who strongly denied having issued any such request. Nothing had happened to the idol they said.8221;

So heavy was the demand for the special yellow thread that in several places in Matunga and Kings Circle the stores ran out of thread. Adds Laxmi, quot;My friends told me they had difficulty in procuring the thread. But it was not just the community here in Mumbai that was rocked by such rumours. They were rife in Chennai and even in Pune.quot;