A software engineer; wife is still studying

For N. Giribabu, a software engineer from a tiny village in Andhra Pradesh, home could really only be down south.

For N. Giribabu, a software engineer from a tiny village in Andhra Pradesh, home could really only be down south. But having landed a job in a reputed software firm’s Mumbai office, he rented a flat in the vast expanse of realty affordable for migrants to Mumbai, in verdant Vasant Nagri in Nallasopara, over an hour’s commute from his Andheri office but peaceful and homely.

As he headed home to Vasai on July 11, Giribabu died in one of the seven bomb blasts that ripped apart seven first class compartments of Western Railway suburban trains. His body was found at Cooper Hospital.

A starry-eyed software engineer from Nagulapadu village in Guntur district, Giribabu had worked in Hyderabad before coming to Mumbai

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For the past year and half, he’d been working at the SEEPZ office of Polaris Software Lab Ltd, one of the country’s top software developers.

It was a Mumbai dream for the newly married couple, which ended tragically. His wife, still to finish her graduation and able to converse only in Tulu and broken English, led a homely life. Immediately after the blasts, she moved to her native town near Hyderabad, leaving the home that they had taken on rent about 11 months ago.

“My wife speaks Tulu so she used to spend some time with us,” said an aged neighbour, not wishing to be named. “We helped her after the blasts because they didn’t have anyone here. But they didn’t really interact much with others.”

Giribabu was cremated in his native town.

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