It's a Tuesday today, the day we go to print, the day my colleagues, friends and family try to stay out of my way knowing the rise in my level of crankiness.

“Ma, teacher onek para ditase homework kori nay bole” (Ma my teacher is giving me a lot of 'para' because I didn't submit my homework), says your school going kid one day.

If we had just read about the victims or heard it on the news without any visual image of their suffering would we be as shocked and outraged as we are now? Would we be as vehement in our demand that this carnage be stopped immediately? Perhaps not.