New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- A wedding anniversary plan that would remain forever unfinished! A prayer to welcome a daughter back home that would never be said! These are stories of two disparate families joined only by the misfortune that struck them at the New Delhi Railway Station together on Saturday.
On their 16th wedding anniversary on Tuesday, Virender Singh, a resident of Mahavir Enclave in New Delhi, planned to visit a temple with his wife Poonam, as they do every year. But Poonam (40) died in the stampede at the railways station that left 17 others dead. "Every year, we would go to the temple and make kheer on our anniversary," Singh recalls, his voice shaking in grief. "But this year, destiny had a cruel twist for us."
"Today, when we...