AHMEDABAD: They were thick as thieves, partners-in crime and bound by the love for music and animals. And when the Covid-19 pandemic broke this
sibling
partnership by claiming the life of Neeleshwar Sen, a 25-year-old CA student in Ahmedabad, his sister Dr Lily Sen resolved to keep her brother alive in her life.
Ahead of
Rakshabandhan on Sunday, Thaltej resident Dr Sen signed up for private tutorials to learn to play Neeleshwar’s guitar. “Neeleshwar would be super-excited about Rakshabandhan. He aspired to become a professional musician and we must have had hundreds of karaoke sessions, singing and laughing together. I signed up for guitar lessons as a tribute to him,” says Dr Sen, a 29-year old clinical psychologist. She also wishes to set up an animal shelter home for stray dogs, another love of her brother.
Another sister Radhika Bhavsar, a 28-year-old
Sabarmati resident, has gone one step ahead and began paperwork to adopt brother Maulik’s 10-year-old daughter Maahi. Maulik succumbed to Covid-19 in March and the sister has decided to become his daughter’s support system, just like he was to her, all through their lives.