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Accident victims
get new lives via
his photos
IT WAS 8 am on a Saturday in December 2005 and I was reading
the newspaper at my home in Delhi when the phone rang. My
brother P.N. Raju was on the line from Chennai. His brother in law
P.N. Narasimhan and two of Narasimhan’s colleagues had met with
a severe accident while returning home from office at about 4 am in
Pondicherry.
Raju broke down over the line. I immediately told Raju to proceed
to Pondicherry with Guruji’s photo and keep Guruji’s photo on or
beside the three injured. I had given Raju the photo some months
earlier.
The Maruti car the three were travelling in had dashed against a
stationary bullock cart. The car got smashed in the front. The two
people in the front suffered severe head injuries and their arms were
broken. But it was the person on the rear, Mr. Arun, who was worst
affected. Mr. Arun’s head had hit the ceiling of the car and he had
suffered a huge internal injury.
When Raju went to the hospital, doctors told him the three
were badly injured. They also did not hold out any hope for Arun,
predicting that he would not survive for more than seven hours.
Arun’s internal injury was too deep as seen in the x-ray. Inside the
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