Marine Drive resident Sarla Parekh who lost her son Sunil and daughter-in-law Reshma to the Mumbai terror attacks at the Oberoi-Trident seems to have taken the quote to heart.
The only cure for grief is action.u00a0u00a0
- G H Lewes
Marine Drive resident Sarla Parekh who lost her son Sunil and daughter-in-law Reshma to the 26/11 terror
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AS DECEPTIVELY TRANQUIL AS THE SEA: Sarla Parekh at her Marine Drive home. pic/Vishal Kelkar |
attacks at the Oberoi-Trident seems to have taken the quote to heart. The tragedy has propelled her to fight "the system".
Soon after the attack, Parekh filed a PIL in the Bombay High Court. It was filed by techie Vijay Mukhi and lawyer Anand Desai on behalf of Parekh and outlines a specific 12-point plan regarding various improvements to ensure such attacks are prevented.
Said Mukhi, "The PIL is in limbo right now, as the matter is in the Supreme Court."
Added Parekh, "I filed another PIL last week on why VIPs should get so much security at public expense. They should pay for their own security."
Parekh has also provided the initial seed money to an initiative calledu00a0 Citizens Take Charge, an initiative that asks for accountability in various spheres of governance.
"My children are gone. In a while, I will be gone too but the next generation should not suffer," said Parekh, adding that her loss made her "realise that I too had failed. I was self-centered, though I used to do social work. I thought issues like this don't affect us. I had to change".
"My message to everybody here is Jaago, it is time we did or we will be doomed."
A father's griefIn the wake of the 26/11 attacks, the Cricket Club of India held a condolence meet for members' families and members directly affected by the attacks.
Sevanti Parekh, Sunil Parekh's father, spoke to a packed, silent lawn full of mourners that he could
have accepted his children's death in any other way sickness, an accident but such a death was simply unacceptable.
