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“Dad never came home early. That night, however, he did. When I asked him, he said, ‘I wanted to surprise you.’ I remember asking him to take me for a long drive and ice cream. My mother intervened, saying, ‘Let him eat, and then you can go.’ Image
She had made egg curry for him."⁠

"I cannot stand the smell of eggs, so I told him, ‘Call me once you are done eating; I’ll be in my bedroom.’ Little did I know that it would be the last memory I ever had of my father.
Just sitting by the dining table, smiling at me, eating his food", says Divya Salaskar, 21, on the dreadful night of 26/11.⁠
The world may have immortalised encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar as a brave martyr who laid down his life-fighting terrorists during Mumbai’s 26/11 attacks.⁠
But to Divya, he was her best friend, her ‘control room’ for every problem under the sun, and most importantly, just her ‘Dad’.⁠
In an exclusive interview with The Better India, Divya narrates how 26/11 changed not just the lives of those inside hijacked spaces but also their loved ones who watched the horror unfurl on their television Sets. ⁠

Read it here:thebetterindia.com/165126/26-11-m…
You may be gone, but you continue to live on in our hearts, Vijay Salaskar. A twenty-one-gun salute to you!

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