India, Nov. 14 -- No hope lives in the heart of Ram Balak Sahni, who lost his only son in the Monday Red Fort blast. "How will I survive now?" he said, staring blankly at a survivors gathering on Thursday. The meeting was organised by the survivors of the 2005 Sarojini Nagar blast to commiserate with the kin of the latest victims.

"My two daughters are still studying and I have been unwell for a long time. My son was the only earning member of the family," said Ram Balak, father of an autorickshaw driver, who had left for Old Delhi around 4.45 pm with a passenger the day a blast tore through a busy city road. "He must have got another ride there. We had no idea such a thing could happen," he said.

According to Ram Balak, he got a call a...