Cho Seung-Hui of Virginia Tech gunned down 32 people on 4/16: heinous, meaningless and utterly inhuman.The media went berserk. It's fitting if CNN, NY Times and the like cover the event and its aftermath extensively. What's puzzling is that the Indian media has left no stone untunrned in covering the event. Two indians Minal Panchal and G V Loganathan perished in the shootout.

With all due respect to the departed souls, since when has an event on foreign land started to occupy the front pages of Indian media for days together? Since eternity.My condolences and sympathies are with the families who lost people that fateful day. When you compare how such tragic events are treated in India versus any other country, my head hangs in shame. The media here writes up about each and every soul lost and posts condolences thus showing sympathy. When was the last time Indian media did that? Does anyone know the names of people who lost their lives at nandigram recently? Or the names of the security guards who faught bravely to avert an major disaster at the parliament?

I had come to terms with the importance of life in India versus the west. What's disturbing is the fact that the importance of a life lost on Indian soil is nothing compared to when a soul is lost on foreign soil.Probably every body would have read something like "14 people were killed today at a police firing. There were 3 men, 5 children and 6 women among the dead."

Cattle get a better treatment in the west!