'You're In My Mind': Love Poems Found Scattered On Tracks Of Odisha Train Accident Site
The jottings on torn pages of a diary with sketches of elephants, fish and sun on the other side, were probably written during the leisure time of a passenger whose identity is not known as yet.
Scattered sheets of paper, with poems in Bengali professing love, were scattered on the tracks beside a mangled coach of the Coromandel Express as rescuers rummaged through belongings of the victims at the rail mishap site in Odisha¡¯s Balasore district, less than 48 hours after the train crash, billed as one of the worst in Indian railway history.
Just 2 days back, there was a train accident in Balasore, India.
¡ª Chandra Bhushan Shukla (@shuklaBchandra) June 4, 2023
Too many died and a lot more had serious injuries.
A bundle of love letters and poems were found amongst the debris on the tracks.
A glimpse of a lost romance. A rarity in this age.
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Love poems, sketches strewn across rail lines
The jottings on torn pages of a diary with sketches of elephants, fish and sun on the other side, were probably written during the leisure time of a passenger whose identity is not known as yet.
Photographs of these pages have gone viral on social media.
"Alpo alpo megh theke halka bristi hoy, chotto chotto golpo theke bhalobasa sristi hoy" (scattered clouds lead to light rains, (while) love blossoms from the little tales we hear)," the handwritten poem said.
Another half finished poem which was on another loose page said "Bhalobeshei toke chai sarakhhon, achis tui moner sathe ..."(With love I need you at all times, you are there in my mind at all time ...)
Netizens commented that these were "heart rending", and showed how "life was unpredictable".
Till now no one has come forward to claim the poems or relationship with the poet, whose fate too is unkown, local police officers said.
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The horrific train crash
A devastating crash involving three trains in the eastern state of Odisha has killed nearly 300 people and left around 1,100 injured, many of them seriously. Described as one of the deadliest train accidents in decades, the tragedy struck around 7 pm on Friday, when many passengers were sleeping.
The crash involved the Bengaluru-Howrah Superfast Express, the Shalimar-Chennai Central Coromandel Express, and a goods train.
Odisha Train Accident
The crash saw one train ram so hard into the other that carriages were lifted high into the air, twisting and then smashing off the tracks. Another carriage had been tossed entirely onto its roof, crushing the passenger section. Over 3,400 passengers were travelling in two trains, according to railway officials.
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