
Raju Thomas
Spare parts dealer
A resident of Vasai, 43-year-old Thomas was returning from work at Charni Road when he was injured in the blast at Mira Road railway station. “The place where I was sitting in the train was completely destroyed,” he says. “I must have done something good in life to have been saved.” Thomas is deaf in one ear and is still scared to board a local train. He has saved his trousers, but can’t bear to look at it.
“After I returned from the hospital, I kept my trousers in a plastic bag and put it in the loft. I hadn’t looked at them till today. I don’t want to remember the day I wore them.”