The free run of absurd tragedies has somehow led to a kind of social stoicism in which a sense of fatalist resignation soon takes over the numbness of horror. According to reports, the victims had gathered on the railway track to get a better view of the burning of the Ravana effigy organised at the Dhobi Ghat ground. According to a report in The Indian Express, they were “taking videos of the burning Ravan as the first of the trains, 74643 Jalandhar-Amritsar DMU, ran them over. The second train, the 13006 Amritsar-Howrah Express, sped past seconds later and some of those who had jumped on the second set of tracks to escape the first were caught under it.”