India | Updated Jun 14, 2008 at 02:18am IST

A month since Jaipur blasts, life moves on

Jaipur: Goma Devi has learnt a simple lesson of life the hard way. The 65-year-old resident of Jaipur is a fruit seller and was going about her business just opposite the Hanuman Mandir on May 13, when the bomb went off.

But Goma picked up the pieces of her life soon after. "Those who have to live will live…those who have to die will die. I am scared. I don't let people leave their stuff, things have changed,” she says

For some though, it’s a call of duty. Head constable Subhash Chandra Sharma was not on patrol that fateful day. But his fellow constable who was patrolling the Johari bazaar area fell victim to the tragedy.

"I was on duty that day. There is no way we get scared. Such is our job. We cannot afford to get worried,” he says.

But all signs of terror striking the temple fade away when the Mandirs aarti begins

“Whatever happens, the rituals have to go on. Even on the blast day, the aarti happened on time,” says the priest of Hanuman temple, Narain Sharma.

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