A seven-year-old boy who wanted light-up shoes
India, Oct. 29 -- All that seven-year-old Karan wanted for Diwali was a pair of shoes that lit up with every step.
So, his father, Vinod Poddar, a senior court attendant at the Supreme Court, took him and his 12-year-old sister, Diksha, to Sarojini Nagar Market on October 29, 2005. "He was so happy that day," Vinod recalled softly, seated beside his son's garlanded photo.
Karan would have been 27 years old today. He was one of the many children who died in the serial blasts that ripped through Delhi that evening. Vinod hasn't forgotten a minute of that day. As he stood with his children near a chaat and juice shop, a man pointed out a suspicious bag near a garment shop close to the chaat stall. "We saw a cooker filled with wires. Before I c...
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