Friends remember Pune blast victim Anindyee
Debamoy Ghosh & Prithvijit Mitra,
TNN, Feb 16, 2010, 04.50am IST
KOLKATA: They shared internet jokes, exchanged SMSes, chatted and giggled over coffee. Even though Khushboo Kejriwal knew her Salt Lake neighbour Anindyee Dhar for only two years, they shared an intimate bond that had survived the latter’s move to Pune last year. On Saturday evening, Khushboo lost her best pal, her buddy with whom she had spent “many memorable moments”.
“I still can’t believe she is no more. Every time I enter my flat, it seems she will peep through her door, say hello to me and smile. I don’t think I will ever come to terms with Anindyee’s death,” said Khushboo, even as she broke down at the staircase of her BB block apartment in Salt Lake.
Recalling their association, the first-year student said they became friends after her family shifted to Salt Lake two years ago. Anindyee was her next-door neighbour and they struck an immediate friendship. “I knew Shilpa Goenka’s sister and several others who happened to be Anindyee’s schoolmates. We had a group and it helped bring the two of us together. She was a bundle of energy, always on her toes and smiling. We would do everything that normal teenagers do — go out for movies, hang out with friends, chat on the internet and exchange text messages. With her around, there was never a dull moment,” said Khushboo.
The youngster recalled Anindyee’s love for good theatre and cinema. She would often drag her best friend to theatre festivals and multiplexes. “The moment Anindyee came across a good music album, she would shoot me a message insisting that I hear it as well. Often, she would hop across to my flat with a CD and we would spend hours listening to music,” recalled Khushboo.
The 19-year-old said Anindyee’s penchant for fitness was admirable. A basketball player in her school team, she would spend hours at a gymnasium across the road.
“In fact, she inspired me to join fitness classes and I was about to join the same gym. Just before she left for Pune, Anindyee called me to say that I could walk down to the gym with her and get enrolled. That never happened, though,” said Khushboo.
After Anindyee left for Pune, they kept in touch over phone, though the conversations had got irregular of late.
“She was extremely busy with her studies and so was I. A few weeks ago, I lost her Pune number and was about to collect it from her mother. But I never got the chance,” rued Khushboo.
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It was really difficult to even walk. Bodies were scattered
everywhere, there was chaos; people were shouting and running for their lives. I could hear people shouting that it was a bomb blast
