The ashes of the dead in Karur may not have yet settled down, but a lot of political dust has been kicked up in the few days since. Leader after leader from across parties is making a beeline to the disaster site, then the hospital, on to consoling the bereaved families and then to the mandatory meeting with the media, with their own versions, perversions and diversions of the truth, which in any case is unlikely to ever surface. There are so many calamities and crimes, committees and commissions, reports and records all gathering dust, that this will be one more such forgotten episode in the annals of this godforsaken rational state.

The cursed town has not yet been blessed a visit by the author of the original sin. Instead, Vijay did make a cameo on video on Tuesday with a solemn face

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