Almost seven years after she was killed in April 1999, all the accused are out - the Delhi police apparently did a lousy job at building and sustaining the case, and with witnesses turning hostile, forensic evidence messed up, there is no justice yet. So the killer(s) of Jessica Lall are still out there.

From time to time, a foreigner would ask me, "How do you say this in Indian?". And whenever there is time, I make it a point to let them know that there is no one language called "Indian" a la Korean or Japanese. Officially, there are 18 languages and several hundred dialects. Many of these have their own script for writing.