Nearly every day for the past two years, two mothers have sat at their sons‘ bedsides and repeated almost the same words. "It‘s time to go home," they tell the young men. "Don‘t you want to leave the hospital?"
Both mothers pray their children will emerge from the severely brain-damaged states they were plunged into after bombs ripped through seven commuter trains in Mumbai two years ago. The July 11, 2006, bombings killed 187 people and injured more than 800.
Sawant‘s mother stares into her son‘s wide-open eyes, frozen in a perpetually startled expression. "I keep talking to him and try to make eye contact," said Madhuri Sawant, stroking his clenched fingers, which grip the steel hospital bed rail. "I keep telling him that he will get better and we will walk out of here."
"He can hear me. I‘m sure he can. He replies to me with his eyes," said Meena Singh, kissing Amit on the forehead.
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Both mothers pray their children will emerge from the severely brain-damaged states they were plunged into after bombs ripped through seven commuter trains in Mumbai two years ago. The July 11, 2006, bombings killed 187 people and injured more than 800.
Sawant‘s mother stares into her son‘s wide-open eyes, frozen in a perpetually startled expression. "I keep talking to him and try to make eye contact," said Madhuri Sawant, stroking his clenched fingers, which grip the steel hospital bed rail. "I keep telling him that he will get better and we will walk out of here."
"He can hear me. I‘m sure he can. He replies to me with his eyes," said Meena Singh, kissing Amit on the forehead.
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Looking at the prolonged agony of these two survivors (?!!?) and their relatives.. sometimes makes me wonder if those who died instantly that day were the fortunate ones...