Guwahati, May 16 -- Guwahati reels from yet another preventable death, raising the agonizing question: how many more lives must be lost before the callous apathy of the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) and the Assam government finally ends?

The death of 50-year-old Anju Rongpi, a tribal woman from Khetri Borbitoli village of Sonapur area, crushed by a collapsing, decade-old brick guard wall near the Bahini River in Beltola bazaar in Guwahati on Thursday, is a stark testament to their criminal neglect.

Local residents paint a damning picture of the wall's long-standing disrepair, a ticking time bomb that the GMC shamefully ignored.

Assam Pradesh Mahila Congress president Mira Barthakur, present at the scene, rightly held the governm...