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Parag is in a 'vegetative state' -- alive, but unaware

Priti Sawant sits with her two-month-old-baby girl in her lap, in her home in Bhayandar, a township near Mumbai.

There is a vacant look in her eyes. Her husband Parag, just 27 years old, was injured in the train blasts on July 11, 2006.

He had a severe head injury which resulted in a brain hemorrhage. He was taken to the Bhaktivedanta hospital, and then shifted to the Hinduja Hospital the same night. Five months later, he remains in coma; doctors attending on him say he is in a 'vegetative state' -- alive, but unaware.

He has undergone five neurosurgical procedures, with nothing tangible to show for it. When his father Prakash, who works at the Mazgaon docks in Mumbai, asks the doctors about his son's prospects, the answer he gets is 'wait and see'.

Parag's father, mother and uncle take turns sitting by his bedside. Wife Priti is currently in her mother's home, where she had gone to give birth to the couple's first child. She has completed her Higher Secondary Certificate, and hopes the Railways, which is already meeting her husband's hospital charges, will give her a job.

Parag and Priti fell in love and got married in 2001. At the time, he was working as an assistant sales manager in a private company; they were dreaming of building a future for their child when the bottom dropped abruptly out of their world.

Those who wish to help may contact Priti Sawant, 207, Ramabhai Apartment, B P Road, Goddeo Naka, Bhayandar (East), Pin: 401 105. Father Prakash Sawant can be contacted on: 98334 40904; and uncle Suresh Sawant on: 98690 15564

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