How life
becomes tragedy in short span? Even though we aren’t affected by things
directly certain feeling are impossible to avoid when come to learn about things
and thoughts on post effects. We are just four months old to this compound (row
house) and wasn’t familiar with the neighbors unlike the pretty old
neighborhood, but we come to face them each day and sometime exchange few
words as goodwill and on things related to common. There was this particular house at the rear
end of our compound (which house 3 duplex houses) and they are the only owner
come resident who don’t communicate with others except the single man of the
family. So we don’t know anything much about them and wasn’t in force of
learning their relationships but on the assumption we know who the mother and
sons are.
There are four
little kids in the house but there seems to be no evidence for that unless they
all come out and only less than a week before I come to see or know there are
four kids rather being two – whom I see every day while going to or from school
or cycling in the evening! The two girls, one in 4th STD and the
other in UKG are very quiet and handsome and while passing our house, the
little one, make certain not to make any noise that invite our pet dog from
barking. The other two kids are twins (a boy and a girl) in age about 2 seem
very smarter and adorable when they come around in their tiny cycle and baby walker
to incorporate their sisters on their cycle. So far (forever) I had seen only one
elder mother and two men in age of 40+, who suppose to be her sons, and the
kids belong to them.
Belong to
Muslim community it’s obvious for them to prevent practicing with others but
still the elderly mother smile and inquire when come to face and the only
person who communicate well with others (in their family) was her elder son. He’s someone sounded very
responsible and protective and cooperative. For example he’s the only one in
the compound who used to close the gate every time passing in and out of home;
apart us whose house being first make sure the gate was closed always to
prevent unwanted entering. The other one who is a father of 4 kids seems so
affectionate and whenever he turn back home in his bike, the kids surround him
and he take them for a round in his bike with easiness however stressful he
perhaps come home. But it was sorrowful and heart-wrenching to know the scene will
never reappear from the late Monday night! Not that the family had relocated (like
they planned to sell their lost house in near future) but lost the vitality
that what I could say about.
The family has
lost three invaluable lives – the elderly mother and her two sons (which
include the father of 4 little kids) to a car accident. It was such terrific
and shocking news for all our neighbors. Like I said above we aren’t familiar
with them and wasn’t acquaint about their family but being humanitarian it is
not easy to console such fatal ending happen to people we see daily. I was
watching the kids cycling inside the premises happily just 2 hours before the
news arrive, and though we felt very sorry for the demise of the elderly mother
and two siblings – who are the only adults of the family apart the kids mother,
whom I have seen never before as she don’t head out of their home, our heart
goes for the little kids whom perhaps could not understand what happened to
their father, uncle and grandma. We truly regret for the future of these kids who
destined to grow without their beloved father and the wife without husband.
The mother and
her sons were returning after attending a family function in Ramnad and the car
drove by one of her sons was crashed with the road block and all died at the
spot. The kids and the mother were at the home, accompanied by their uncle
(maternal) at that time of incident didn’t conveyed the message to them rather
doing it with us, he took them all to their home town without saying anything
as he doesn’t know what to do all alone. We was helpless when such a tragedy
struck our neighbor, as we don’t know anything about them and how they
perhaps react if approached drop us into mourning silent. We haven’t get any
message from them so far, since they are the only family with all relative afar
we have no idea what’s happening at their end and will they turn back to take
charge of the house is a question unanswered. Without the kids the compound
seems so empty, although they aren’t noisy kids their presence felt good. I don’t
know how to relate this incident but couldn’t stop writing about it which
bothered me much.
Here is a
picture I shot on ECR, a road parallel to IT corridor, multi-stories are new to
this part of landscape that stretches close to seashore. I find about 4 to 5
projects coming up on this road, which is emerging as a Nation Highways (NH) from
the scenic beach road because of the road widening. Hope there isn’t a repetition
of Moulivakam incident anywhere. 
