It is interesting to me that there is a mystery death from the 1940s that people still track, whereas I expect that people die in India everyday that no one kno

It is interesting to me that there is a mystery death from the 1940s that people still track, whereas I expect that people die in India everyday that no one knows why, and there isn't a 50 year investigation of the details. This seems to be a commentary on the huge population we have in our world compared to the size of the population only fifty years ago. I think it also speaks to our desire for stories to understand the world. If the body had been found with just clothes, it would probably have been forgotten. But the existence of a scrap of the final page of The Rubaiyat in his pocket frames this as a person who was interesting, and hence having a story we might want to know.