Dear Editor,
I must compliment the Economist on its extraordinary insight into recent and historical events. You relate how a train carrying Hindu pilgrims "caught fire in a Muslim neighborhood" in Gujarat, India in 2002 ( http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10015201). I take it this is the 'spontaneous combustion' hypothesis, perhaps a cousin of the 'twinkie defense'?.
I look forward eagerly to your explanation about how the nuclear warhead that hit Hiroshima in August 1945 just happened to "fall out of a passing American plane". Or about how Indian prisoners-of-war in 1857 just happened to be "inside British cannons when they were set alight".
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely,
Rajeev Srinivasan
Bangalore
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The "train caught fire" did it? There is also a school of thought (sorry, school of propaganda) which says that the occupants of the coach became seized of suicidal tendencies and set the train on fire themselves. They wanted to spark off riots, you see.
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