The twin blasts of Hyderabad is still in my mind as if it had happened just yesterday. Didibhai and her family had come to visit us from germany , especially to see kuntal after the train accident. I came back from College and unusually i was very tired that day. Otherwise we were planning to visit Lumbini Park.
Just during tea time in the evening, we were speechless while watching the news. There was a horrible blast in Lumbini park and Gokul chaat bhandar. kuntal tells so many times he had visited this chat bhandar in Koti. People kept discussing about the terror attack that day and the next and the next. The next day when i went to college i heard from my colleagues that one of my close friend's brother was a victim and he expired. It was a real shock for me. She was from the dept of Physiotherapy, Dr Madhavi. We were partners in the staff bus on our journey to college. We used to have lot of fun in the bus for 4 hrs everyday in the bus. We had shared our views about life, spiritual ideas, exchanged rituals and customs of our states. Shortly she was very close to my heart. I still remember her words which she had told me about her family. She had a younger sister and a young brother who were more like her kids than siblings. The age difference was too much. So after the blast i kept remembering and wondered how she is managing the crisis period. I wanted to be on her side but she stayed quite far off from my place and the city was still quite furious about the disaster.
After a month or so Madhavi came to college. When i saw her in the bus, i was taken aback, like how to speak to her, what to tell her, and how to console her. But she was having the same smile in her face. I think God gives the power to every being to adapt to everything. Anyway, she started talking and explained me in details what had happened. Saiswaroop was her brother's name. He had gone to tution for some course and he did not attend the physics class . Instead he went to Gokul Chaat bhandar . His mobile was also switched off , he was unaware of the blast in lumbini park also. Madhavi and her family kept waiting for him, but he never returned. Madhavi never used to have dinner without Sai. She was waiting in the gate for him but he was in the hospital then in the morgue. After waiting for long she started watching news. And in the news she saw her brother's dead body. She rushed to the hospital with some cousin brothers. She could not inform this to her aged parents who were simple enough not to get any clue of
this trauma of their life. Next day they brought the body and they got the shock of their life. Her dad could not sleep for the next few months. And madhavi also became somehow quiet.
But life has to go on. So she really was a bold girl and she took the responsibility of the family. The first thing she did was she arranged for her marriage. She shared with me once 'If i marry my dad and mom will be busy with the arrangements and keep themselves engaged and may be they may forget for some moment.'
Still I remember her words. She got married and now she has got a baby. A baby boy. Maybe Saiswaroop has come back to his sister.
Just during tea time in the evening, we were speechless while watching the news. There was a horrible blast in Lumbini park and Gokul chaat bhandar. kuntal tells so many times he had visited this chat bhandar in Koti. People kept discussing about the terror attack that day and the next and the next. The next day when i went to college i heard from my colleagues that one of my close friend's brother was a victim and he expired. It was a real shock for me. She was from the dept of Physiotherapy, Dr Madhavi. We were partners in the staff bus on our journey to college. We used to have lot of fun in the bus for 4 hrs everyday in the bus. We had shared our views about life, spiritual ideas, exchanged rituals and customs of our states. Shortly she was very close to my heart. I still remember her words which she had told me about her family. She had a younger sister and a young brother who were more like her kids than siblings. The age difference was too much. So after the blast i kept remembering and wondered how she is managing the crisis period. I wanted to be on her side but she stayed quite far off from my place and the city was still quite furious about the disaster.
After a month or so Madhavi came to college. When i saw her in the bus, i was taken aback, like how to speak to her, what to tell her, and how to console her. But she was having the same smile in her face. I think God gives the power to every being to adapt to everything. Anyway, she started talking and explained me in details what had happened. Saiswaroop was her brother's name. He had gone to tution for some course and he did not attend the physics class . Instead he went to Gokul Chaat bhandar . His mobile was also switched off , he was unaware of the blast in lumbini park also. Madhavi and her family kept waiting for him, but he never returned. Madhavi never used to have dinner without Sai. She was waiting in the gate for him but he was in the hospital then in the morgue. After waiting for long she started watching news. And in the news she saw her brother's dead body. She rushed to the hospital with some cousin brothers. She could not inform this to her aged parents who were simple enough not to get any clue of
this trauma of their life. Next day they brought the body and they got the shock of their life. Her dad could not sleep for the next few months. And madhavi also became somehow quiet.
But life has to go on. So she really was a bold girl and she took the responsibility of the family. The first thing she did was she arranged for her marriage. She shared with me once 'If i marry my dad and mom will be busy with the arrangements and keep themselves engaged and may be they may forget for some moment.'
Still I remember her words. She got married and now she has got a baby. A baby boy. Maybe Saiswaroop has come back to his sister.
