City's daughter returns with heavy heart

BANGALORE: Vanishree is barely 27-years-old but she joins the band of brave women who have been widowed for the cause of our motherland.
On Friday afternoon, she returned from Nagaland with the badly mutilated body of her husband, Captain V. Thirupathy of the Indian Army. Accompanying the brave mother were her two little sons — Madhukrishna (8) and Hemanth Krishna (6).
Capt Thirupathy had left home, at Nagaland, bidding his wife goodbye on Monday afternoon after a quick lunch.On Monday night, she received a call from her husband from Dimapur who promised to return home soon.
But Vanishree’s husband did not return that night and she spent the entire night awake — waiting for her husband.
The next day, she called her husband’s colleagues and did not receive satisfactory replies about her his whereabouts.
After a miserably tiring and sleepless night on Tuesday where Vanishree battled her anxious thoughts and tears, she found herself with uniformed army officers who escorted her to Dimapur in a heavily guarded army convoy.
Movement in Nagaland the Indian Army personnel is not easy — even for a ‘simple’ journey. Public transport is a strict no no. The army officers and their families move about in heavily guarded convoys.
Vanishree was escorted the army officers to the army hospital in Dimapur, travelling for about 3-4 hours road. Vanishree found husband’s badly injured body in the mortuary and broke into tears. The army said Capt. Thirupathy “laid down life fighting militants in Nagaland.�
Vanishree had always supported her husband and been with him even through most difficult and trying situations.
He had rose from rank of a soldier to the rank of a captain through sheer hardwork.
Vanishree had declined invitations from her father stay back in Bangalore with her children and joined husband in Kohima a months ago.
On Friday, she returned back to to her father’s house in Jayanagar — a widow after nearly a decade of being married to a brave and courageous man who became martyr for the sake of motherland.
But Vanishree’s sacrifice for the motherland cannot forgotten — where she paid heavy price and has to bear the burden of widowhood all alone.