: No One Helped Grief-Stricken Son Cremate Mother, Until This Bengaluru Man Showed Up #IndiaNEWS #Bengaluru As Bengaluru struggles to deal with the raging second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens

No One Helped Grief-Stricken Son Cremate Mother, Until This Bengaluru Man Showed Up #IndiaNEWS #Bengaluru
As Bengaluru struggles to deal with the raging second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens are going out of their way to help those in need. Despite some divisive moments, many people continue to stand with each other.
(Image above of Khasif Pasha, who helped a grieving son cremate his mother. )
Khasif Pasha, a 44-year-old local businessman and resident of Bismillahnagar on Bannerghatta Road, is one such example of a person standing alongside his fellow residents of Bengaluru in their time of need.
On the morning of 10 May, Khasif was fasting after Sehri during Ramzan when he received a call from his friend M Nanjundaswami, the Inspector General of Police, Ballari Range.
“At around 6. 45 am, my friend Nanjundaswami Sir called me to explain the situation and asked whether I was in a position to help,??? says Khasif, speaking to The Better India.
What was the situation about? Nanjundaswami needed help cremating his friend’s aunt who had passed away because of the virus. While his friend lived about 2,000 km away from the city, the deceased aunt’s young son who lived with her in an apartment complex in the Rayasandra area near the Parappana Agrahara Jail, was helplessly stricken with grief.
“Only the two of them (mother and son) lived in the apartmentThe saddest [part of the] story is no one in the apartment complex, no one from his office, no one from his caste, no one from his linguistic group, no one from his class, no one from the bunch of his relatives who live in Bengaluru, no one from the temple where he regularly goes to perform puja, no one from the group of the priests who performed Satya Narayana Pooja in his house, none of his friends who attended parties arranged by the man in good old times came forward to help him to cremate the body of the departed soul (sic),??? notes Nanjundaswami in his heartfelt social media post.
That’s why he decided to reach out to Khasif for assistance.
“Initially, I approached the people at Mercy Mission, who are very actively involved in COVID-19 relief work in Bengaluru. Unfortunately, they were overburdened with work and there was a long procedure they had to follow. Since I thought this was not the time to wait, I decided to take up the task myself. I noted the distressed gentleman’s contact number and address from Nanjundaswami Sir and drove my car to his apartment complex during the lockdown. After meeting the son, he told me what needed to be done—like getting an ambulance—which I helped arrange,??? recalls Khasif.
At the apartment complex, Khasif helped organise a decent puja together with the grieving person’s mother, consoled him, and led the ambulance to an electronic crematorium near Kudlu Gate, where there was a long queue of grieving families and their deceased loved ones.

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