In the early hours of May 8, a goods train crushed 16 migrant labourers to death in Aurangabad as they slept on a railway track. A few days have passed since this tragedy, but I still find myself at a loss while trying to decide which is more heartbreaking – the actual accident, or the responses on social media that have followed.
“How could they have been so irresponsible?”
“They have no one but themselves to blame.”
“They had children, why weren’t they thinking about their children?”
“Who sleeps on a railway track?”
“Why couldn’t they sleep by the side of the tracks?
“How could they be so stupid?”
— source thewire.in | Rohit Kumar | 13/May/2020