Sheena’s diary reveals hatred for her mother

GUWAHATI: While speaking to TOI on August 27, Mikhail Bora had spoken about his sister Sheena’s troubled relationship with their mother, Indrani Mukerjea. What Michail said a week ago had been expressed by Sheena herself in her diary 12 years ago, when she was in Class X.
Excerpts from Sheena’s diary, which were circulated in the media on Thursday, contain her feelings of hatred towards Indrani, while indicating her soft corner for her father, Siddhartha Das.
The diary entries, purportedly made by Sheena in 2003, could be a crucial piece of evidence for investigators. Sheena’s biological father’s claim that he had spoken to her only once on the phone when she was in Class X, but she addresses himself frequently in the dairy. The dairy is also an indicator of how Sheena and Mikhail became victims of loneliness in their childhood.
Sheena’s entries include letters to her father, which she could never post because she did not know where to look for envelopes. She has also written that her grandparents hated her father but found Indrani’s marriage with Peter Mukerjea “prestigious and wise”.
In one part of the diary, Sheena writes about her loneliness so much so that she had to wish herself on her birthday and is explicit about her “depression” and how she “hated” her mother.
A neighbour recollects, “First, there was a lonely child, Pori (Indrani’s pet name), and after she disappeared, there were these two lonely children, Sheena and Mikhail. Their grandparents would drop them to school but we were really sorry for them as they did not have their parents by their side.”
Mikhail had also shared the same feelings when he had accused his mother of murdering Sheena. When Mikhail was asked about his relationship with his mother in an interview with TOI earlier, he had said, “What relationship? She sort of abandoned me when I was just about three months and my sister was about two years old. We were raised by our maternal grandparents. I met her when I had just finished school and she told me and my sister that she doesn’t want to introduce us as her children.”
Mikhail had also said that Sheena had moved to Mumbai for her studies and stayed with Indrani till 2012. After that she had a major fight with her mother and started living in a rented house. “I firmly believe she (Indrani) can do it (murder). Now I fear something might happen to me also. She is too powerful. There is nothing left to consider her my mother,” he had then commented about his mother.