Meena Menon
MUMBAI: Bechan Ramprasad Gupta (50) used to earn a living selling bakery products. Every morning he left his home in a sprawling migrants’ colony in Mumbai suburbs, for sale of biscuits and puff. But November 26, 2008 changed all that.
Gupta, well known in the neighbourhood, usually visited his family at Nagra in Ballia district […]
Rahi Gaikwad
Mumbai: This Republic Day Sharda’s grief doubled. For, her slain husband, Balasaheb Bhosale (55), assistant police sub-inspector, who was in the same vehicle as were the Ashok Chakra awardees during the terror strike here, received no mention whatsoever.
“Can the government tell us how my husband’s action fell short on gallantry? What are the parameters […]
Meena Menon
MUMBAI: The laminated driving licence, the identity card and some currency notes — all had holes caused by a single bullet. “There was even a one-rupee coin but the police took that away. The holes were made by the same bullet that killed my brother-in-law, Mishrilal Maurya. All these things were in his shirt […]
Meena Menon
MUMBAI: Ramavati sits on the floor of a one-room house in a Jogeshwari slum, cursing her fate. Her husband Nathuni Parshuram Yadav, 45, was killed in the terrorist firing at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) on November 26. He had gone to the station to see off his daughter Gudiya, who was leaving for […]
MUMBAI: At first, constable Ambadas Ramchandra Pawar was thought to have died in the random firing by the two terrorists at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus here on November 26. Wearing ordinary workday clothes, he was one among the 56 killed there.
But a photograph which the Mumbai police received much after the attacks, told a different […]
Meena Menon
MUMBAI: Ramavati sits on the floor of a one-room house in a Jogeshwari slum, cursing her fate. Her husband Nathuni Parshuram Yadav, 45, was killed in the terrorist firing at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) on November 26. He had gone to the station to see off his daughter Gudiya, who was leaving for […]
Meena Menon
MUMBAI: The dark-panelled room is redolent with memories. There are pictures of Pankaj Shah and his family and seated behind a large desk, Kalpana Shah talks about the time that has passed since her husband was killed by terrorists at the Oberoi Hotel on November 26, 2008.
“It’s my love for my husband, my focussed […]
Anupama Katakam
Mumbai: It had been difficult getting work at construction sites in Mumbai, as many projects had slowed down. So daily-wage construction workers Prakash Janav Mandal, his cousin Taklal Mandal and four others had taken on some work in Chennai.
They were at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) near Platform 14 where the Chennai Mail was […]
P. Ram Mohan
NIZAMABAD: Shaik Abdul Rasheed is in a state of shock ever since his daughter Ameena Begum, 20, lost her life and he himself received bullet injuries in the terrorist attack on the Chhatrapathi Sivaji Terminus in Mumbai on the night of November 26.
He and his wife Noorjahan, their son Shaik Mahaboob, daughter Ameena […]
Rahi Gaikwad
Ambivli: “I saw grandma’s chappal [footwear] and bag on TV,” chirps six-year-old Adnan. He is referring to television footage in the aftermath of the massacre at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST) on November 26, 2008. His grandmother Fatimabi Rehmat Sheikh, 65, was killed in the firing there.
Every Wednesday, Fatimabi used to make a trip […]