Sitaram Kesri is visiting a school. In one class, he asks the
students if anyone can give him an example of a "tragedy".

One little boy stands up and offers that "If my best friend who
lives next door was playing in the street when a car came along and
killed him,that  would be a tragedy."

"No," Kesri says, "That would be an ACCIDENT."

A girl raises her hand. "If a schoolbus carrying fifty school
children drove off a cliff, killing everyone involved... that would
be a tragedy."

"I'm afraid not," explains Kesri.

"That is what we would call a GREAT LOSS to the Nation ."

The room is silent; none of the other children volunteer.

"What?" asks Kesri, "Is there no one here who can give me an example
of a tragedy?"

Finally, Gurupreet in the back raises his hand. In a timid voice, he
speaks: "If an airplane carrying Narshima Rao, Laloo Prasad and
Sitaram Kersi were  blown up by a bomb, *that* would be a tragedy."

"Wonderful!" Kesri beams. "Marvelous! And can you tell me WHY
that would be a tragedy?"

"Well" says the boy, "because it wouldn't be an accident, and it
certainly would be no great loss to the Nation!"