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The haunting images of people falling dead, as the flames of life were extinguished in a puff of
smoke, danced before my eyes. I wanted to run.I wanted to shout. I wanted the pain coursing through
my veins to end in a deafening blast. I wanted the dead back. The silence around was too loud for me. I
couldn’t cope. Slowly, my dead-still surroundings started stirring and I became aware of the voices
around me … some begging for mercy … some calling out to their loved ones … and what seemed
perhaps, newly orphaned children crying piteously. I heard Death’s cape swish and flap in the sick winds
that Murder blew. Images of corpses with a permanent scream locked into their faces were etched in
my memory forever.
‘Habimana, Habimana, are you one of those faces?’ No!
It cannot be.
Pain shot up my left arm.
I fell back in a stupor.
Habimana … I know you are not dead … I will find you,
wherever you are …
Blood dripped somewhere.
Blackness.
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About The Author
Kirthi Jayakumar is an writer, artist, activist and lawyer based out of Chennai, India.
She is the founder of The Red Elephant Foundation and the A38 Foundation of International Law.
Driven by the goals of peace and equality, Kirthi indulges in different mediums to express her
dreams for the world around her. An optimist by ideology, an idealist by thought, a humanist by
religion and an equal-ist by tionality, Kirthi is a global citizen. Her first book, Stories of Hope,
earned her a nomination as one of among six Indian authors to watch out for, alongside the likes
of Devdutt Pattanaik and Lavanya Sankaran.
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