A guided inquiry

So you have it. A retired Supreme Court judge, and an NGO (hallelujah) have opined that the train burnt from the inside due to a cigarette or cooking. Now, the passengers must have been really hungry, you know, having just left the station where they wouldn't eat something sold by a vendor of another community (did they insult him?), and being so far away from their destination. How far away? So they cooked, and smoked.

Smoking is prohibited inside coaches. They broke the law. So they brought it on to themselves. Only secularists are allowed by law, consititution and morality (not religion, they can't make a choice) to make this argument.

Nobody ever smokes inside railway compartments. Not in India. This is why we don't have many railway accidents. But they did. That is why the inevitable happened.

People are cautioned not to disembark from moving trains. However, this train was stationary. So they couldn't break another law, and sat there, waiting for somebody to find a solution.

People living around the tracks saw that the coach was burning. They ran to the rescue, and started urging everybody to get out. All in vain, because the passengers wouldn't pay attention to anything said by the other community. The outsiders tried breaking the windowpanes to let the flames out. They also cut the vestibule open, so that those inside could get out.

Oh woe, the fire was actually in the way to the vestibule! Unfortunately enough, the coaches were also mostly made from plywood, rexene and styrofoam. Only if the present Railway Minister had been in charge then, he would have ordered everthing converted to earthenware.

So the stubborn, communal, hungry, lawbreaking passengers suffered their fate.

Those on the outside did their best to rescue these hapless people. They tried to pull the fire trucks, mysteriously stalled, to the burning coach - but they were too heavy, and the eager-to=help crowd didn't help matters. They even tried to douse the fire with a revolutionary new fire extinguishing liquid, that they brought in large cans carried in rickshaws. They sprayed it and they prayed. Some even sustained burns for all their acts of kindness.

Only the insiders never got out. If they had, we would have known the truth about this benevolent, unselfish act of kindness blessed by God ^H^H^H (sorry, the secularists can't have that!).

Of course, there were some pretenders who tried to cash in on all the aid flowing in after the incidents. However, we know the truth about them. They are all liars. If they managed to get out, why couldn't 58 others? They are the real culprits, by their silence, for the aftermath.

Now, after almost three years, and at a very unopportune moment, we are faced with the whole and ubiased truth. We salute the Minister and the judge, and genuflect before them for their fairness and bravery in the face of so much opposition and hardship.

If only we had known then. If only we had known then.