India, Oct. 29 -- Four names, four families, four lives cut short in a building that came down in Satya Niketan in September. On Wednesday, the grief was impossible to undo.

Still, it found a Government cheque: Chief Minister Rekha Gupta personally handed ex-gratia assistance to the families left behind by that collapse, along with others marked by fire, drowning, and a pandemic that already feels like another era.

The Chief Minister distributed the cheques on Wednesday to families affected by four separate tragedies in the Capital, including the Satya Niketan building collapse, the Tughlakabad fire, the drowning incident in the Jasola drain, and the family of a Municipal Corporation of Delhi worker who died serving as a COVID warrior d...