The script is familiar. Days after a horrific fire that takes lives, there is outrage all around; the concerned government pretends to be shocked and institutes an enquiry; arrests are made; reports are called for; and the tragedy is forgotten till another horrific inferno breaks out in another place. There is no reason to expect that the script will be different in the fire that occurred in Goa last week, in a nightclub of a popular and fast-growing hospitality chain owned by brothers living in Delhi, in which 25 lives were lost in a matter of seconds. At least 20 of them were the staff of the nightclub, many of them in the kitchen, trapped and charred or asphyxiated; four or five were........

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