We have more modern methods which would do the same thing. I don't have any regard for religious beliefs or public sentiment in this matter. This must end. India is destroying itself by such wasteful burning of the forests it has left. As progressive as modern India has become, I fear it has not come far enough fast enough.
Atavism kills, and that is India's damning sin as a nation.
I grieve too for the losses in Gujarat. I just tell it like I see it. India needs better ways of doing things. It is still not a rich nation, but it is not exactly a poor one either on a world scale. I strongly suspect that the multistory buildings that collapsed in Bhuj were built on Soviet models under Indira Gandhi's government.