Never underestimate the political investment of the average Indian. How does someone die of shock? I thought that happened only in vague horror movies in which something creepy crawls out of the TV and scares the crap out of you. So forgive me for squinting hard at the Daily Times (A New Voice for a New Pakistan) news agency that is claiming that YSR Reddy's death (the now late Andra CM for the out of touch desi) has literally "shocked" over a 100 people to DEATH! To the death! And some 23 who committed suicide. The suicides are sadly more believable, as are burnt buses or a good old fashioned bandh. But Shivaji Ganeshan or even the great NTR were the only ones to have mastered the art of dying from shock and even they were faking it.
So what the holy helicopter crash? Lahore - please not be telling jokes. Please to verify how you determined the cause of death in these 99 cases of death by shock. And please to be telling how you gleaned this spectacular "news" from, well, Pakistan?
UPDATE - Ok, they are citing the Indo-Asian News Service IANS) as their source. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\05\story_5-9-2009_pg1_9
But seriously, I am reluctant to believe anything that is "reported" by subcontinental news agencies, since The Onion debacle in Bangladesh. Seriously.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8237558.stm
The funny thing is, I was talking to Mum a couple of hours after I read your post, and she echoed the same sentiments. Although the perpetual trusting little girl in her wrapped the scepticism up in - "Apparently he was very dearly loved".
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