The Ash Theory

it was the day of 13 feb 2010....
5 friends decide to hang out and party to celebrate the promotion of 1 of them at the work place.

Ankik Dhar was working at a premier investment banking firm, J P Morgan at mumbai.
Shilpa Goenka was also working at a premier investment banking firm, Nomura at mumbai.
Ankik had a sister, Anindyee Dhar who was studying at the Fergusson college, pune.
Shilpa had 2 other friends at pune too.

Ankik was an engineering graduate from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Shilpa was also an engineering graduate from the renowned BIT Mesra.

Ankik got a promotion at work recently and wanted to celebrate his glory with his sister and friends. even Shilpa had to go to pune to meet her friends. so Ankik and Shilpa leave mumbai and head towards pune to party. the 5 decide to hang out at the German Bakery pune. a few days before this Ankik's sister Anindyee had asked her teacher at her college about the true meaning of DEATH. did she have some premonition?

after taking their seats at the german bakery, the 5 friends found a desolate n isolated bag kept under their table. without having any clue to whom it belonged, they call the waiter to have a look at the bag so that it could be given to the person to whom it belongs. a waiter heads towards them but in the mid way gets diverted to some other customer. so another different helper moves in their direction.

no one imagined what was in store next for these brilliant and true 5 friends. the moment the bag was opened at that place, it went off... it exploded coz a bomb was placed in that bag. those 5 friends, the waiter and 3 other people lived their last in that bomb blast at the german bakery on the evening of 13 feb 2010.

Shilpa was a friend of mine and Ankik was known to me too. they were in their early 20s and were poised to take on the world and be on the world platform, the centre stage, the biggest stage of them all. but the next day their photographs got printed on the daily newspapers since they were no more to breathe in this world and got killed in this brutal and viscious act of humanity.

all their dreams ambitions and wishes are now left in the form of ashes. life is nothing but a form of this ash. it spreads like a smoke from one place to another. when there is no space for the smoke to move into, it decides to move upwards on its path to heaven and leaves behind what is called as ash.

what if the smoke of your life decides to move upwards to heaven?
what if all your dreams ambitions and wishes get converted to this immortal form of ash?
what if TODAY be the last you would get to breathe in this mortal world?

take your call...!!!