.ROBED in bloody woollens, they lay on rows of ice. The stench of death hung heavy over the slushy makeshift morgue at the Arya Samaj College in Khanna in Punjab's Ludhiana district. With strangers prodding and prying them to satisfy their curiosity and image-hungry photographers capturing their dead, bloated shapes. They had hoped for a happier destination. They had expected a safer journey. India's annual railway absurdities and accidents, however, claimed these unsuspecting, innocent lives—about 200 of them.