Dec
18
2011
What They Said: Kolkata Tragedies
West Bengal has been hit by two tragedies in recent days. A fire at a hospital in Kolkata left at least 89 people dead and then at least 162 people died after drinking a toxic batch of liquor sold in a district south of the state capital. India Real Time presents a roundup of what the newspapers had to say about the disasters. In a Friday editorial focused on the illegal liquor deaths, The Hindu said the tragedy “lends credence to thinking among political parties and state governments that it might be better to introduce legal sale of licensed liquor