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| Survivors fight the odds |
| The explosions killed over 180 people and wounded a city that was fiercely proud of its safety.
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| INDIA
, 5-July-2007
2:50:34 AM |
| It was almost a year ago that Mumbai was rocked by a series of bomb blasts that hit the city's lifeline - its trains.
The explosions killed over 180 people and wounded a city that was fiercely proud of its safety.
Parag Sawant and Amit Singh are two of the survivors, who lived but cannot yet tell the tale.
''That morning he left at 6 am. I spoke to him at 3:30 pm and he repeated what he had said earlier that Mommy, I'm going to pick up my forms and then I will come home. After that I did not have any contact with him. That evening his father came home, and then I found out what had happened,'' said Amit's mother.
Reliving the tragedy
Parag and Amit's uncommon journeys led to common tragedies. Both are in a coma since that terrible day and both families are frozen in time. It's a tragedy that their families relive day after day.
Twenty-eight-year old Parag Sawant was recently married with an unborn child at the time of the blasts. He took the train from Meera Road that day on his way to his wife's sonography.
Little Prachiti, now eight months old, has never heard her father speak.
''She is now eight months old, she calls out Papa, Papa,'' said Madhuri Sawant, Parag's mother.
And Amit Singh, a final year B Com student at Elphinstone College was keen to pursue further studies.
He also decided to take the Meera Road train on his way to pick up his forms for college.
''Like a river that has stopped flowing, time has stood still for us,'' said Dinesh Singh, Amit's father.
The real tragedy of that fateful day is within the home. Not only did the blasts put Amit and Parag into a deep sleep, it has also put on hold the lives of their family.
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