Grisly pictures
I have been noticing of late that the pictures of victims following gruesome events are being very graphically printed in our print media. The tragic events in Jhalakati are a case in point. The last photos of Ivy Rahman were another example. I don't think we need to see the bodies of the fatalities in such detail; it offends our sensibilities, means we have hesitation showing our children the newspaper (which restricts their awareness of current affairs), and I think also the family members of the deceased may a find it too painful. There is also the danger that we become sanitised to seeing this kind of violence all the time so upfront.
Perhaps, as is the case in many foreign newspapers, a written description without images of individual victims would suffice. We can use our imagination as to what happened; as God only knows we have too many examples to use as benchmarks.
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