They came to celebrate. To cheer. To scream. To see their heroes. They left in ambulances. On stretchers. In silence.
What happened at the RCB victory parade wasn’t just a tragedy. It was a reckoning. But we, the fans, the followers, the social media vultures, chose to look away. Or worse, to exploit it.
Instead of mourning the loss of human life, we plunged into the very thing that makes our digital age so disturbingly cold: hate, disguised as opinion.
“RCB didn’t deserve it anyway.”
“Now we can pull Kohli down a peg.”
“Why hasn’t he posted?”
“Good this happened—karma.”
Virat Kohli was there, yes. Inside that bus. Trophy in hand. Doing nothing more than being who he is. A champion. A human. And yet the sheer volume of bile hurled at him, and his family, was monstrous. As if he choreographed the crowd, as if he orchestrated the chaos. As if his existence somehow justifies death.
But the cruelty didn’t stop with him. It targeted RCB fans. It surfaced from so-called supporters of other teams. And even from “loyalists” who claimed,“18 years we waited, people dying is just collateral.”
It’s not just a loss of life. It’s a loss of basic humanity.
In this grotesque new world, where every tragedy is twisted into a talking point, this too will be forgotten. It won’t be remembered with respect. It will be recycled.
Come next IPL, this stampede will be a meme. A punchline. A stat. A line in a fanwar thread. “Remember when people died because RCB won?” they’ll sneer, not in horror, but in mockery.
Because that’s what we’ve become. A species that weaponizes grief. That extracts content from corpses. That counts retweets instead of bodies.
No one will talk about the mother who waited for her son to return from the celebration. Or the girl whose screams were drowned by a sea of feet. No. We’ll talk about run rates. Legacy. Banter. And we’ll forget.
We always do.
In the end, the real tragedy isn’t just the lives lost. It’s how quickly we’re willing to move on,
unless it suits our narrative to dig them back up.
Let that chill you. Because it should.
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