March 4th. Rioting continues.

That’s the thing I never could accept about India: it’s too easy to die there. It’s a country where malaria kills people, where the plague still exists, where hundreds at a time are killed in train wrecks, thousands in earthquakes, and perhaps 800 in a clash over the site of an unbuilt temple. It’s a place of suffering that brings added suffering upon itself. No wonder that officials regularly underestimate death tolls. It's too painful to do otherwise.