India, Feb. 23 -- How to Know God? It's a book by Deepak Chopra that is still sitting on my shelf, weeks after the E-files came to light and rocked the conscience of the world. The initial outrage over what had transpired in those shrouded years is now slowly turning into sickness in the stomach. A vague sense of ennui is also creeping in after repeated exposure to the details of the crime, and it is only a matter of time before history absorbs the horrid episode into its black hole, the way it has done with other modern infractions.

The book brings back memories of a touristy moment from the past, which at that time didn't carry the wild images it now evokes. A Caribbean cruise to the US Virgin Islands brought me visually in contact wit...