An analysis of a photograph

Shuddhabrata Sengupta at Kafila analyses a photograph of Mohan Chand Sharma that appeared in the Hindustan Times:

Since he is not on a stretcher of any kind, he appears to be in a position where it is plausible that he walked down the four floors from the site of the encounter at L-18 and is seen continuing to walk. He is in pain, but his injuries, at least in this photograph, do not appear to be life-threatening, at least not as yet.

and then:

Sharma died of excessive bleeding. The excessive bleeding seems not to have begun at least till the time that this photograph was taken. The photograph in the Hindustan Times is consistent with the possibility of an injured arm, and the blood stains on his escorts shirt also seem to be in consonance with what would happen if you were helping a person who has been injured on his arm (or if the blood has sprayed on to your shirt at close range from another injured person).

He asks a lot of questions which are worth asking.

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3 Responses to “An analysis of a photograph”


  1. 1 Sunil Sep 24th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    Been a long time, thought I’ll drop by and see what I find.

    Hmm. Bengalis! Bengalis!

    That is an analysis? Building a theory around a fertile speculation, without evidence and throwing a few links is analysis?
    God save you people. What a nation of misguided jokers?

    Hmm. Actually There aren’t much questions in the article deemed as ‘worthy’. But as a Forensic specialist let me answer this: there is a thing called internal bleeding and it happens commonly in abdominal /thoracic injuries. Esp in close range gun shots.

    Some of you might have come across people collapsing or even dying after many hours following resuscitation or Hiemlich’s. The culprit being unknown ruptured vessel or fractured rib impinging on a major vessel leading on to bleeding into peritoneum. Hard to recognize , and worse fatal.

    That is the commonest, top of the chart. There are so many other variables: like, just to make it thrilling- he might be a heavy drinker, which might have affected his liver and therefore the clotting time. Or he might be suffering from Von willebrands disease (So romantic no?) I can sit here and speculate all day.

    And all of this of course that doesn’t make the encounter less suspicious( for reasons beyond your simple minds ) but it would make your hopeless, ignorant theory more absurd. And most definitely it wouldnt disprove if the guy on the right beheaded and castrated the man while travelling to the hospital?

    As I heard somewhere, A little less melodrama? And hey perhaps, a bit more forensics, what say?

  2. 2 Bystander Sep 24th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

    yeah really. knee-jerk pseudo-liberal-socialists ready to jump on any anti-government consipiracy theory, no matter how retarded.

    A little more brain, perhaps ? Watching TV doesn’t make you a goddamn doctor.

  3. 3 Linus Sep 25th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    rofl..Sunil, if you’re a forensic specialist then I’m John McCain. Stay away you troll. Go flame other places.

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