A couple of months ago, we blogged about “Techie reaches mother’s flat on return from US, finds her skeleton”“Techie reaches mother’s flat on return from US, finds her skeleton”
There is another similar yet bizarre story about an NRI woman coming to Hyderabad in search of her father who had been missing for over a month. The woman, and her mother were shocked to find his decomposed body at their flat in LB Nagar.
The NRI and her mother came to Hyderabad because P Lakshminarayana Murthy, a retired government employee, had not been responding to their calls for several days. Murthy was a native of Rajamahendravaram in Andhra Pradesh. He had two daughters, both of whom were living in the USA. His wife, Lakshmi, had recently gone to America to visit their daughters.
Murthy gone to Hyderabad in August to attend a relative’s wedding and stayed at his daughter’s flat. During the first few days in Hyderabad, he had been in touch with his wife, after which he had stopped responding to her calls. Worried, the daughters and his wife had alerted relatives in Hyderabad, but none of them had been able to give them any information.
Nearly 40 days later, Lakshmi and her younger daughter Soujanya flew to Hyderabad in search of Murthy. Despite knocking repeatedly on the door, they received no response. They broke open the door with the help of a local carpenter and entered the flat. They were shocked that none of the residents in the apartment building had noticed a foul smell.
This is yet another morbid story that will send shivers down Non Resident Indians with elderly parents living alone in India.
Story first reported in Deccan Chronicle and thenewsminute.com
Also check out the blog post: The Dilemma of Looking After Aging Desi Parents
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