Alone Together
As news updates, and explanatory reportage of the stampede at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, during the Royal Challengers’ Bangalore victory lap, unravelled before us in real time, echoes of infrastructural failure, crowd mismanagement and “last minute changes” try, unsuccessfully, to make sense of the tragedy. 11 people have been reported dead. There is no way to rationalise the dark irony that retrospectively undergirds the crushing melancholy of this realisation.