Fifteen young people were suffocated to death. They were professionals. They were employed by a gaming studio. They worked in a room with no ventilation. In a building with only one exit, without even the minimum fire safety protocol.
This happened not in a small town or in a remote part of India. It happened in Lucknow, the capital of India’s biggest state, Uttar Pradesh. A state whose Chief Minister’s face can be seen alongside the Prime Minister’s almost every day in newspapers in full-page advertisements, where they boast of how the state is making rapid progress.
