Click to play videoJaipur: Four months ago the serial blasts in Jaipur killed 68 and left many injured. While some victims are still terrorised, some have chosen to fight the terror.
Within four months the world has completely changed for Raju. On the evening of May 13, he was seated stringing jasmine garlands. Suddenly he heard a loud sound and felt the pain of splinters through his body before he fell unconscious.
It has been more than four months now and the memory of the two blasts at Jaipur’s Choti Chaupar still haunts him.
“When it pains I turn around restlessly to get some relief and then when I feel slightly better I think who is going to feed me in the evening,” says Raju, who has been a victim of Jaipur blasts.
The turning point for Raju came when he saw many others like him going through the same suffering in the Ahmedabad blasts.
He then realised that there were two ways of dealing with the pain, first was to give up and second to let it turn into a reason for him to fight against terror.
Raju chose the second one. He made a vow to do his bit in the war against terror - like being alert to unattended bicycles in his area. But he is still angry that the state government has done nothing to improve the security in the walled city.
“If we only take initiative and check the bicycles it is a different matter but there is no added security here, nothing has changed,” says Raju.
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