Via sajaforum.org: Long after the media lights have dimmed, Anish Majumdar of Little India, an Indian publication in the United States, visits the Louisiana State University campus in Baton Rouge where two Indian PhD students were murdered in December, 2007.
In the laundromat of Lousiana State University’s Edward Gay Apartments complex in Baton Rouge is a small stool on which sits a simple clay pot. The sole flower in the potted plant has already wilted. Tacked to the wall above it is a rudimentary paper sign pasted over aluminum foil, a valiant effort no doubt to create the effect of a plaque – of sorts.
It reads simply, “In Memory of: Kiran and Komma.” The modest memorial is the sole visible reminder of a gruesome double homicide in the building that had attracted national media attention just one month earlier.
On Dec. 13, 2007, the last day of final exams, two suspects broke into the family housing complex, Edward Gay Apartments on campus and brutally murdered two doctoral students from Andhra Pradesh, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam.
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