At 4:30 AM, a Hyderabad–Bengaluru sleeper bus turned into a furnace on wheels. Twenty people — mothers, techies, students — were burned alive after the vehicle collided with a motorbike near Chinnatekuru village in Kurnool. But as usual, the nation will mourn, tweet #RIP, and move on. What we won’t do is ask why our highways are still death traps camouflaged as progress.
This wasn’t “just an accident.” It was the latest in a long chain of preventable tragedies — born from greed, negligence, and a government asleep at the wheel. Luxury buses race through rural stretches every night, packed with tired passengers and operated by drivers who barely sleep. The highways they roar down? Poorly lit, dotted with wandering cattle, broken reflectors, and roadside bikes forced into their path by lack of proper lanes.
Officials will blame the biker. Operators will blame fate. But both are victims of the same neglect. india loves celebrating its highways — but behind every “Golden Quadrilateral” photo op lies a darker truth: no real emergency infrastructure, no trained response teams, and no accountability when buses go up in flames.
The kurnool tragedy isn’t about 20 passengers — it’s about how india treats its working class in motion. people chasing jobs, visiting families, or heading home from shifts, dying because someone saved money on fire-resistant material or skipped a 15-minute safety drill.
And tomorrow, another private bus will speed down the same road, with a new set of faces — trusting a system that has already failed the last 20.
If speed is our national obsession, then this fire was its price.
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