CST hero's wife looks back in anger, and with pride
Aditya Sharma is on the cusp of turning fifteen. He doesn't want celebrate his birthday though. For the last three years, Aditya prefers to keep to himself on his birthday on November 26. It's also the date on which his father, Sushil Sharma, died while trying to shield a little girl from the machine gun fire at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST).
Ragini Sharma, 46, keeps referring to her husband as an ordinary man. It's a point of pride for the Sharma family. "My husband stopped the incoming trains in their tracks saving all those lives. His death still hurts. But I draw strength from the fact that my husband, an ordinary man, a ticket checker, achieved all this," she says.
If a man is judged by his deeds and not his station in life, then Sushil Sharma was anything but an ordinary man.
After stopping the incoming trains, he heard the yelp of a young girl caught in the crossfire. Sushil Sharma didn't think twice before abandoning the relative safety of his booth to come to her aid and in doing so lost his life.
"But that's the kind of man he was. He always said to us that after he retires he wants to help those who couldn't help themselves," said Ragini. Today, in keeping with her husband's wishes Ragini has set up the Shaheed Sushil Kumar Foundation. They help orphans and feed the poor.
"The government thinks that just because they've given us compensation, they've bought our outrage and anger and hurt. What they don't realise is that money for us is like blood money. I just want to give it away in charitable causes as quickly as I can," said Ragini.
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Aditya Sharma is on the cusp of turning fifteen. He doesn't want celebrate his birthday though. For the last three years, Aditya prefers to keep to himself on his birthday on November 26. It's also the date on which his father, Sushil Sharma, died while trying to shield a little girl from the machine gun fire at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST).
Ragini Sharma, 46, keeps referring to her husband as an ordinary man. It's a point of pride for the Sharma family. "My husband stopped the incoming trains in their tracks saving all those lives. His death still hurts. But I draw strength from the fact that my husband, an ordinary man, a ticket checker, achieved all this," she says.
If a man is judged by his deeds and not his station in life, then Sushil Sharma was anything but an ordinary man.
After stopping the incoming trains, he heard the yelp of a young girl caught in the crossfire. Sushil Sharma didn't think twice before abandoning the relative safety of his booth to come to her aid and in doing so lost his life.
"But that's the kind of man he was. He always said to us that after he retires he wants to help those who couldn't help themselves," said Ragini. Today, in keeping with her husband's wishes Ragini has set up the Shaheed Sushil Kumar Foundation. They help orphans and feed the poor.
"The government thinks that just because they've given us compensation, they've bought our outrage and anger and hurt. What they don't realise is that money for us is like blood money. I just want to give it away in charitable causes as quickly as I can," said Ragini.
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