Office boy chasing MBA dream, lost son to malaria

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

I recently read one dreadful story..

For Shweta Futane, life has been harsh. A wife at 18, she lost her two-month-old son Mayank to malaria in May. Now at 19, she is a widow. Yogesh, her caring, hard-working, and ambitious husband of two years, died in the July 11 train blasts. These days, even their 200 sq feet room at Vinayak Nagar chawl in Teen Dongri in Goregaon seems empty.

A frail Shweta spends hours in front of Yogesh's photo, while his mother Vijya (50) can't believe what has happened to them- even two months later.

"The only world he knew was his books. He would study in the nearby library for hours," she says about Yogesh, who was working as an office boy at the Shangrila India Estate at Churchgate, but was working towards doing better for himself.

The first step to that was an MBA and he was pursuing the degree by correspondence from Pune University. Hence his long hours away from home - first at work and then at the library "In fact, he didn't even want to get married. We forced him to settle down last year," adds Vijya.

Yogesh had finished work to board the 5:48 pm Borivali local, eager to get home and put in a couple of hours of study. His MBA exams were scheduled for July 24. He was nervous, but satisfied about his progress.

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