Dead have no haven
This article, by a staff reporter at the Calcutta Telegraph talks about the surprising difficulty of finding a place in a private mortuary for the father of a NRI (non-resident Indian) whose son wanted the funeral delayed for two days. Calcutta, despite being one of the world’s most populous cities only has one such private mortuary and this mortuary has place for just three bodies at a time. Morgues in government hospitals do not admit bodies of individuals who died of natural causes. Municipal commissioner Alapan Bandyopadhyay said on Tuesday that setting up mortuaries was “nobody’s business”.
Article: Dead have no haven
Author: Staff Reporter
Publication: The Calcutta Telegraph
JAIPUR BOMBED: 60 feared dead in serial strikes on Pokhran anniversary
This article, published in the Calcutta Telegraph describes the eight bomb blasts that killed up to 60 people and injured 200 in Jaipur within a span of just 20 minutes. Immediate suspicion fell on the Bangladesh-based Harkat-ul Jehadi Islami.
The body of a bride, wearing a bright red sari and marriage bangles, lay on the road. A young man hung out of a rickshaw with his head turned back and face smeared with blood. In the puddle of blood outside the Hanuman temple, a 10-year-old boy lay dead.
The day of the bombings coincided with the 10th anniversary of the May 13 nuclear tests in the Rajasthan deserts, a few hundred miles away.
Article: JAIPUR BOMBED: 60 feared dead in serial strikes on Pokhran anniversary
Publication: The Calcutta Telegraph