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Scallion Side Hero Username: Scallion Post Number: 3679 Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 206.123.17.17 Rating: N/A |
Thu deenema jivitham... papam roduna poyevadini koti champatam endhi swami... iraga d'li involve ayi na valani Jai NTR, Jai Jai TDP | ||
Scallion Side Hero Username: Scallion Post Number: 3678 Registered: 05-2009 Posted From: 206.123.17.17 Rating: N/A |
Victims of communal riots tend to be faceless statistics in newspaper reports the day after. But for the wife and three daughters -- the youngest 8 months old -- of Tanaji Madarse, he is all too real and his loss all too tragic. Earning a salary of Rs 6,000 at the cloth shop where he worked, Tanaji Madarse often found it difficult to run the house. His relatives in Latur occasionally pitched in with rice and pulses and the family pulled along. But they were happy. Tanaji's little world turned topsy turvy on March 30, the day Hyderabad was convulsed with communal riots, the first in many years. He and his brother-in-law Arvind Pawar were pelted with stones by a mob as he desperately tried to flee a seething street in Mustaidpura, near Tappachabutra. Tanaji suffered three deep wounds on his head resulting in instant death. Pawar was lucky to survive. Tanaji had wanted to drop his brother- in-law safely home in Mustaidpura before going to his own home at Aramgarh, Rajendranagar. "He was the most loved child in the family. His father died when Tanaji was 17 and the entire burden of the family fell on him," said S Murahari, a relative. After the loss of Tanaji, his wife Sudaivata, 26, headed back home to Latur with her three kids. On the fateful day, Tanaji called up his brother Ganesh, who resides at Raheempura, wanting to know the situation in Tappachabutra. "Ganesh told him not to come here and go home (to Aramgarh) straight. But Arvind Pawar was with him and he wanted to drop him. He waited for sometime and called again. This time, Tanaji was told that there were policemen around and that he could come, but carefully." Assured that there were policemen to protect him, Tanaji drove to Mustaidpura on a motorcycle borrowed from his employer. When they reached the place, they found it deserted. They were seen by a mob and chased. Stones rained down on them as Tanaji skid to a halt and tried to turn around. He fell and a boulder smashed his head. Pawar fell too and suffered a wound on his head and a fracture. But Tanaji was dead, blood oozing from his head. Pawar staggered to his feet and ran for his life. He flagged down an auto and went to a hospital. Police arrived at the spot where Tanaji fell and dispersed the mob. Luck had run out on Tanaji. Policemen had been patrolling Mustaidpura and left the place not five minutes before the attack. "Had we still been there, the tragedy would have been averted," a police official said. http://expressbuzz.com/cities/hyderabad/when-luck-ran-out-on -hyderabad-riot-victim/162361.html Jai NTR, Jai Jai TDP |