THE CITIZENS (STORY OF HUMAN VALUES)
I am Mahesh , I have been a part of investigation journalism from past two years, but I always remember of the case that occurred in 08 April 2008, On that day morning as usual I got up and opened my bed room window and found drizzling rain outside with cool air touching me, I felt as though I was in heaven for some time , I ran towards my front door opened it and went jumping outside and saw kids playing in the rain , I became a kid for some time and enjoyed with them by jumping in the water and playing with them. My mom called me “you are grown up for marriage still you are playing like a kid” , I went inside and got ready to go for office.
Now my routine work starts , from a long time I did not find any interesting news to cover , so thought of taking an off, called up one of my school friends and we went to Lumbini park in Hyderabad ,we were watching the musical fountain show suddenly I heard a shout from a guy “ run away!!! there is a bomb here.” everyone was panic and they started running away from that place ,suddenly I heard a blast but god’s sake everyone cleared that place but the plastic chairs and stuff near the blasting area were thrown away into air, and few people got injured because of it , but a plastic chair which was above the bomb flew and injured the guy who intimated about the bomb, he became unconscious, I called up 108 ambulance service and rushed to hospital with the guy, Similarly two more blasts occurred in two other parts of Hyderabad and for god’s sake no one got much injured but three other people, including the guy I rushed to hospital were in coma, after enquiry I found the other guys also came to protect the people from blasts in other areas.
As I am a journalist called up whole my team to hospital and Our TV channel gave the live updates to the people all over world about the blasts, many rumours came up saying the four guys(two guys and Two gals) who were in coma are terrorists , the police surrounded the hospital even the CM asked for CID enquiry.
The whole city was in Panic and there were mixed opinions about the guys, some felt they are good, some felt they ran way from terrorist troops , after listening to many opinions I felt they might not be good people.
Day 2 : 09 April 2009 it is early morning 5 Am small kids of ages 5-15 started gathering near hospital (they were around more than 50 kids), followed them with some ladies(around 8 of them) they were trying to go inside the hospital, the police were pushing them outside. I with my team went to them the kids were crying, one of them who is of age 15 is trying to convince police to go inside, the police threatened the guy saying “they were terrorists they will kill you if you go inside”. The guy answered “they were not”, again after 5 minutes time 8 to 10 beggars came to the hospital to meet the guys, again after some time a red parrot followed by birds and animals (they were 10 birds,2 dogs, 1cat) came there to the hospital, I was surprised by seeing animals coming to meet the persons in hospital, then I thought this might be very interesting case.
I asked my team to switch on camera “lets take the interview of all the people who gathered near hospital”. But the police did not allow us, Its morning 6:30 am the sun is just peeping out from sky, the road to the hospital was full of trees , we can see shadows of trees and the flowers were falling on the road , suddenly I saw a wind coming like hurricane towards the hospital and when it is about to come nearer ,I found it was some one coming on bike with a very high speed, he stopped the bike near the hospital, he is well built, wearing a Hugo boss T shirt , he went near the hospital door he confessed to police “ I am the friend of the four guys”, the police stopped him going inside.
I with my team went to him , I started asking questions as a journalist, who are you….blah blah blah…he answered that his name is Hari friend of those four guys working in Hyderabad, he did not want to reveal anything apart from that he went to the garden near the hospital and sat there , slowly I also went there and started questioning are your friends terrorists then he shouted at me “why do you think so?” and then cooled himself and replied “Yes they are”, he started recalling his past and started telling about the past.
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