Click to play videoJaipur: Exactly a month ago on May 13, the Pink city was turned red. Eight blasts, aimed to kill, maim and terrify, went off at the busiest market in Jaipur, at the busiest hour. 80 people were killed and over 150 injured.
Among those who were injured that night were four-year-old Subhana and 16-year-old Shahid.
Shahid
For Shahid life has changed in many ways in the last one month. He may not have heard the bomb go off but Shahid’s life was impacted nevertheless. Already speech and hearing impaired, Shahid lost an eye to the terror of May 13. Today life's small desires seem like big dreams to him.
“Before the blasts took place, he asked me when he’ll get married and I replied: after three Diwalis. Now he tells me that now that he has lost one eye, he’ll never be able to get married,” Shahid’s mother Zarina says.
A punctual and passionate worker, Shahid was employed at a candle factory. He was returning home from work when the bombs went off. Today he is confined within the four walls of his house in Mehnat Nagar with his three siblings.
His parents are worried about their young son’s difficult and, perhaps, uncertain future ahead.
"After us there is no one to take care of him,” Shahid’s worried father, Gul Mohammad, says.
Subhana
Four-year-old Subhana, too young to understand the meaning of a terror attack, lost her mother in the attack.
And the magnitude of her loss has still not quiet sunk in yet.
“She keeps asking us where her mother is and we simply have no answer,” Subhana’s grandfather Liaqat Khan, who struggles with these questions everyday, says.
Subhana and her nine-year-old brother Ibrahim had come with their mother to Jaipur for a vacation. But now, the city that took their mother away is their new home, with the wounds of that terrible Tuesday still fresh in their memories.
“She still remembers everything that happened during the blasts. She knows she took eight shrapnel during the attack,” Subhana’s grandmother Ayesha Khanam says.
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