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It's one life that comes and goes

JULFIKAR Au MANIK and Arun Devnath
The clock moved 15 minutes past midnight. A man, accompanied by his friends and relatives, arrived in the eerie neighbourhood of Nimtoli last night. He looked up into space and cried in near-silence.
Mahfuz Zaman Azad came straight to the fire site from airport, hearing the news that his 30-year-old sister Ayesha Siddiqa Shilpi and her two children died in Thursday's blaze.
Azad, now a businessman, has been abroad for the last 20 years, with 10 years in Australia.
"I got a phone call from Bangladesh. I wasn't ready for this bad news. I can’t believe it
can really happen, "he said.
"I wasn't ready to come now. I had a travel plan for the next month,” he said.
"It's one life that comes and goes. I had only one sister. She brought two children to the world and left the world, along with them."
"We had been very close to each other and shared almost everything. Now I have nobody to share with."
Azad said the death was the biggest blow to his 75-year-old father.
"What sin have we committed?
Azad tried to rationalise the cruel things that happened to his life and said his sister was not the only one who died. She was among many. "It was like seeing your own death up close."
Azad is the youngest among five brothers, and Shilpi was seven years behind him. He comes to Bangladesh twice a year and stays for up to three weeks. The last time he talked to his sister was four days back.
Eight-year-old niece Adita was one of the most emotional points in his life. "Last time I talked to her, she just wanted chocolates."
Azad said he did not forget to buy chocolates for her. Even if he knew she was no longer alive, he was not ready to come to terms with the reality. He came to the burnt-out site because he believed he would find his loved ones.
"Chocolates are in my car."
What to do with the chocolates now?
"I will give them to her — at Azimpur (where Adita was buried yesterday)." Azad broke down in tears.
The family Azad's sister had been married to lost many of its members.
Shilpi's sisters-in-law — wives of her husband's two brothers — also died in the fire. Shilpi's husband and brothers-in-law are alive, but all the children are dead.