Priyanka Chaudhary never shed a tear throughout the ceremony. She didn't need to; around her, dozens of onlookers, some of them commuters who had gathered to watch, sobbed out their grief at the loss of a hero they never knew had lived in their midst.
We headed to St George Hospital, only a hundred meters away, where we saw the previously mentioned carnage and gore. Outside the hospital, a make-shift board had been written on in chalk; it listed the names of the casualties believed to have passed through the hospital.
People -- anxious, fearful people -- crowded around the board. Among them, I saw several Muslim families scanning the board; I saw one family clutching each other and breaking down in sobs when they read the name they hoped not to see.
It struck me then that Muslims were as much the victims of the random violence that, if 'Deccan Mujahideen' is to be believed, is being perpetrated in their name, and for their betterment.
In this photo: The iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel burns
Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images
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