Pune:
Among those who died due to the Pune blast on Saturday evening, were siblings from Kolkata, 19-year-old Anindyee Dhar and her 23-year-old brother Ankik Dhar.
Anindyee was a first year BA student at the Fergusson College in Pune, and her brother, Ankik, had just earned himself a job with Morgan and Stanley in Mumbai after passing out from IIT Kharagpur.
Their death at the German bakery blast has shocked their friends and family.
Anindyee's friend, Abhimanyu Dasgupta said, ''Yesterday was like, her brother came up, they were supposed to go to German Bakery that too we knew in the morning itself. And that was it!''
Ankik would come down to Pune to meet his sister over the weekends, like this Saturday.
Their mother is shattered. Oindrilla De, a friend, said, ''She doesn't want to drink water. She doesn't want to do anything. She is going on asking the same question... what harm had my children done to anyone that they had to face this consequence. It's a question that no one will ever be able to answer because they were, they were humble, they had not harmed anyone.''
''They (Parents) were just telling one thing: Why did we let them go and study outside Kolkata? We should have kept them in our home itself so that we could not lose them.'', Abhimanyu added.
''She was multi-talented. She was an all-rounder.", Oindrilla said of her friend, Anindyee.
Chitrangada Sanyal, Anindyee's friend added, ''I am hurt but the thing us somehow there is some sort of anger inside like that if today, yesterday Anindyee was a victim with her brother and her brother's friend, tomorrow any of us can be. I have a big question mark regarding the security of our country.''
Debarchana Bhattacharya , Ankik's Friend said, "He managed his friends and family so well. Whenever we used to go out together, he always used to pack food for his brother and sister who were back home. We used to wait the whole years, when Ankik will come and we will go out together. So I can't believe he won't enter these steps anymore.''
For the Dhar family from Kolkata this has been the most difficult journey of their lives. In just a matter of seconds, the lives of their little ones snubbed out, a son and a daughter who they lovingly called Octo and Ankhi.
Even for bystanders their pain and hurt was difficult to bear and will remain a gaping wound forever.