Fates changed, hopes remain8230;

For the Mishra family, no news is good news. One year after a journey from Allahabad to Vadodara on board the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati Express changed their lives forever, Satish Mishra and his daughter are still clinging to the hope that Mangala, Satish8217;s wife, who went missing on February 27 last year, will return some day.

Archana, who lives in a hutment in Ranoli outside Vadodara with her father, now shoulders household chores along with her studies. 8216;8216;Earlier, my mother used to take care of everything at home and I did not have to bother,8217;8217; says Archana.

But it8217;s not the extra work that8217;s weighing her down; it8217;s the wait for her missing mother. 8216;8216;It8217;s almost a year and as we have not received any news of her, we hope that she must be there somewhere,8217;8217; says Archana.