• A junket gone all wrong 45-year-old Vallabh Fefar, a mattress distributor from Rajkot, was on a 4-day trip to Hyderabad, sponsored by a mattress company. While other distributors opted for shopping, he preferred to take his family to the laser show. One of his sons, Yash, has been severely injured. The family had moved into their new bungalow only a month ago. Fefar was planning to inaugurate his second shop on August 28.

• The rakhi waits for him

Kiran Chaudhari, also from the Amrutavahini College of Engineering, was from Kalyan near Mumbai. Father Arunkumar identified Kiran from a photograph in the newspapers: it showed his son bleeding, the head resting on a seat in the Lumbini Park stands. Sister Kirti had posted the rakhi well in advance this year, confident that Kiran would get it when he returned from Hyderabad.

• A warrant officer’s son

Before he opted for electronics at Amrutvahini, Saurabh Kumar, son of IAF warrant officer Krishna Deo Kumar (from Samastipur in Bihar, he is currently posted at Bareilly), was studying Computer Science at the Symbiosis in Pune.