You get so much bad news on a daily basis that sometimes you get inured to it. Thousands of people die in typhoons and earthquakes and somehow it doesn’t mean much, if only because there is nothing much you can do, especially in the case of Burma because their idiot government isn’t letting aid in.

And then something like this happens. It isn’t even a natural disaster, it is a series of terrorist bombs. And this time it doesn’t even appear to have religious motivation, because both Hindu and Muslim sites were targeted. But it is in Jaipur, the home of the Rajasthan Royals, a city that I have been taking a great deal of interest in over the past month.

Once again there isn’t a lot I can do. But hopefully all of my recent enthusiasm for the Royals will have some people thinking that these are not just faceless foreigners that have been killed, they are fellow cricket fans. People much like you and me. And hopefully, because there are now Royals fans all around the world, the people of Jaipur will know that they have friends who wish them well.

It sucks. Why do people do things like this?