Lindsay Pereira: The dead we choose to forget
(WorldNews India)

On the first day of the year, five workers fixing a sewer line underground were killed. Manhole cleaners in other cities died too. File pic for representation Rajendra Pal, a 20-something labourer from one of the thousand small towns that dot rural India, was impaled by two iron rods a week ago, while working at a construction site in Nariman Point. They didn`t puncture any vital organs, so Pal survived, but I have been looking for media reports since that accident, trying to figure out why it occurred and whether or not anyone has been held responsible for Pal`s well-being and obvious inability to get back to work for a while. Will his family be taken care of? Will he be assured of work...