'What happened to those 14 people was homicide': Shiv Aroor's take on hoarding horror

14 people were dead when a giant hoarding snapped in Mumbai's dust storm last week and came crashing down on a large petrol pump in the Ghatkopar area. As you may have already guessed, nobody rich or influential was killed by the hoarding.

I've just taken most of those names. All 14, as you just heard, were ordinary low-income citizens.

Their death warrants were written by India's wealthiest municipal corporation, Mumbai's Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC.

Now it's understandable to feel anger and helplessness at perceived negligence and civic apathy of state bodies.

But I want to say without any emotion today on India Today that what happened to those 14 people whose names you've just heard for the first time was homicide. It was murder.