Mumbai: Sourav Mishra is dead. Source: the Maharashtra Government website. But long live Sourav Mishra.
Mishra, one of the victims of Mumbai terror attacks, could not believe his eyes while he was browsing through the names of the dead published in a newspaper after he woke up to his wounds, lying on bed No-102 at the MGM Hospital this morning. He was earlier admitted to the J J Hospital.
The Reuters reporter, who was shot at in the Leopold Cafe when the militants first opened fire on Wednesday night was shocked to see his name in the list at Number 68, figuring in the column of those dead at the JJ Hospital.
Being a professional tracker of commodity index, he quickly took it in his stride much like a pragmatic error during information sharing. But his family members could not.
"My sister called me this morning with a shaky voice and almost in tears to check on my status after reading the newspaper. She was not ready to accept that I was Sourav Mishra. I had to repeatedly convince her not to believe the list. I had to scream to bring her back to sense," the 29-year-old scribe said.
Mishra, however, is not willing to point fingers at others for the trouble. "It is indeed a small incident in the face of such a bigger tragedy. I would not blame the system or the mechanism or even the manpower that would have gathered the data," he said.
