You are a vote when you are alive and a few lakhs and a government job when you are dead. And the government will pull no stops in their effort to create a conducive environment to hasten your demise.
Perfectly avoidable tragedies are rendered inevitable with needless hero worship, unruly crowds, blinkered individuals and governments that view you as nothing but a vote to manipulate and entertain.
Forget crowd control and poor infrastructure, what does it tell you about us as a people that we would risk life and limb to celebrate a corporate-owned team winning an annual cricket tournament. Are we that gullible to branding and marketing and that desperate in seeking a win to celebrate?
