Dreams went up in smoke in a trice
One was planning the wedding of his daughter, the other eagerly awaiting the arrival of his second child. The dreams of Sanjay Kumar Sinha and Ratan Kumar Thakur went up in smoke in a trice. "My son attained veergati (martyrdom). I hope the govt now takes care of the gati (future) of his family," Sanjay’s father said. "We were expecting a call from Ratan by the evening as he had told us he would speak to us after joining duty in Srinagar. Instead, we received a call from one of his superiors who broke to us the terrible news," Niranjan Thakur, Ratan’s father, said.