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you pay your college fees you fall in love you plan the babies and save for the future you book next years holiday and give up beer and when life is planned and the future looked after you are running five minutes too late for work you get in the wrong train at the wrong station in the wrong compartment near the wrong man next to the bomb you look back and suddenly you are dead and there you meet thousands of babies and mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters lovers and friends hundreds of thousands of Iraqis of londoners of africans of americans of asians of indonesians all dead frozen in time human bodies caught in the wrong place at the wrong time at the wrong moment in the wrong country in the wrong politics just for a while please don't talk to me about destiny, of astrology of Karma or of politics or right or wrong or of morality or sects or isms for a while, let me be angry, in anguish let me grieve let me believe there was no reason let me not relieve my guilt in political discussion for there will be time that when we will find reason when we will find politics and we will relieve ourselves of the burden of guilt each one of us, all of us till the next bomb....... [Dedicated to the Victims of the Jaipur Blast]
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