Delhi: 

Blood money: Relatives of the dead and the injured are getting monetary compensation but is that enough to make up for their losses?

Rs 8 lakh for each of the dead and Rs 50,000 for the injured. This is the price politicians have placed on the lives and limbs of those poor sods who died or were grievously hurt in Saturday's bomb blasts in Delhi.

It's a lot of money Rs 8 lakh is. Perhaps enough to compensate that woman whose husband will never come home again. An orphaned kid surely won't miss his dad with this kind of cash to play around with? Rs 8 lakh is also guaranteed to dry the tears of the mother we found sprawled in the street after the blasts, grieving bitterly over her dead son. Rs 8 lakh… wow!

A shame

What a shame. 26  innocent men, women and children have died in terrorist outrage and our politicians are busy buying up the survivors with 'compensation.' They have just played another round of The Price is Right, a macabre  reality show in our country where the right price of a life lost must be guessed in the aftermath of a terrorist outrage. Can anyone be 'compensated' for the death of a beloved husband, child, sister or
brother?

Yes, compensate! Make it up to the people by having  rule of law in the country. There's no point in assuaging our collective conscience by doling out cash to the families of the victims. Give Justice instead!