• In Saki Naka, end of a dream 19-year-old Irshad Ahmed was one of the seven students of Maharashtra’s Amrutvahini College of Engineering who died in the Lumbini Park blast. Studying electronics, this boy from Saki Naka in Mumbai wanted to pursue an MBA to land the right job. Friends always counted on him for help with studies.

• Orissa doc called mother the same evening In Orissa’s Berhampur, a pall of gloom descended when the body of K V Ananda Rao,a young doctor, was brought home on Monday. “That evening he spoke to me on telephone. I did not realise that was his last call to me,” said K Lalitha Kumari, Rao’s mother and a retired gynaecologist. Thirty one-year-old Rao was doing super-specialisation in medical oncology at the NIMS in Hyderabad.

• Promised mother an Indica Milind Mandage, son of a school teacher from Pimpri Gawali village in Parner in Maharashtra, loved mathematics. Many districts schools and a college later, he joined the Amrutavahini College of Engineering. “He wanted to be an engineer. He told me when I get a job, I will drive you in an Indica,” recalled mother Nandabai.

• Took loan to study electronics 19-year-old Sujeet Kumar Jha from Laheriasarai in Bihar’s Darbhanga was also a student of the Amrutavahini College of Engineering. His father, an Income Tax lawyer, had taken a loan to ensure Sujeet trained in electronics. When the body was flown to Patna on Monday, not a single state government representative was there at the airport. A family friend arranged an ambulance for the 170-km journey to Laheriasarai.

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