Article first published as Delhi Bomb Blast on Technorati. Life is cheap in India. Deaths from myriad random and unnatural causes are all too commonplace. Nobody will really be able to give an accurate count of the number of terrorist attacks that have happened over the past few years. It's fashionable to compare any and all terrorist attacks to the gold standard christened as 9/11. There is no ambiguity about what event it refers to. But when attacks become all too commonplace, it's a bit tiring to come up with numerical shortcuts to refer to them. Should today's attack be called 7/9? The Mumbai attacks (not 26/11) on the suburban train system is already barely there in the faintest storehouse of our memory bank. The attacks on some crowded markets in Delhi around Diwali time is also but a mere part of the white noise background of my/our subconscious. At least in New York City, they are coming up with a permanent memorial that will have the names of the nea...
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