Where Was Abir Wrong?

Where was Abir wrong?

As said by Nandini

‘Sir’, please get down, you are in Mumbai, the cleaning man kept on telling to the young man who was sleeping on the upper birth of Jnaneswari Express. It was an AC 2-tier comparment. The young gentleman looked at him and by gesture, he told him that he could not get down as his feet got locked. What the worker understood was not known but he was terrified, that was certain. He reached the Railway office and told the authorities in one breadth that a gentleman was sleeping on the upper berth and couldn’t move his feet or get up.

The Railway authorities came and saw that the man sleeping on the upper berth was unable to get up. A doctor was called and seeing the young man he told his attendants and a few coolies to take hold of the gentleman and bring him down. Later by ambulance, he was taken to the Railway Hospital.

There in Kolkata, Jamini Devi and Ashok Babu were waiting for their son to call them to reach Mumbai safely. After the man was given first aid and was able to sit, the doctor took his wallet and found his contact number, his parents were informed to reach Mumbai immediately. Ashok Babu’s hands were shivering as for the last few months, his Parkinson's was getting worse. Somehow Jamini Devi called her nephew-in-law, Umang, and narrated whatever the doctor said.

Taking the available flight they reached Mumbai the same day. Jamini Devi was not in herself. A few days back she had packed the clothes and necessary items in the suitcase and also the Ray ban glasses that his son bought, his favorite eyewear. Abir was a brilliant student who always scored high marks and excelled his classmates in every subject. A brilliant scholar who was known to the entire college and his lecturers. Coming from a simple middle-class family, he didn’t wish to be lavish and got his ticket done by train. He got an appointment letter to join one of the good-name industries in Mumbai. Abir promised his parents that after he settled down with his new job and had a good flat on rent, he would invite his parents to be with him.

Umang got Jamini Devi seated at the reception and he was running around to find out what had happened to Abir. Before boarding the train and just 2 days before he was fine and all of a sudden what happened? The nurse twice came and took the mother to Abir’s room to see her son. All the lady could understand that there was a drip going on and her son had the oxygen mask put on.

The doctors were baffled and many experts got together. They discussed amongst themselves, ‘Was it some virus, or maybe before boarding a poisonous insect had bitten him and the reaction took place on the train?’ Was, was, was? and these set the doctors thinking.

Meanwhile, Ashok Babu consulted a few doctors in Kolkata and they advised to bring the patient to the city. Abir was treated by the doctors in Kolkata and Ashok Babu left no stone unturned and spent money showing to the best doctors. On the doctor's advice, Abir was taken to Vellore for the best treatment. After a couple of years of treatment and care, Abir can now sit down but he cannot walk and is in a wheelchair. Abir lost his voice and hearing when he got affected by the virus and this is what the doctors say.

Even today the doctors couldn’t give any satisfactory answer to the parents. Meanwhile, Ashok Babu left for his final journey and Jamini Devi is confined to bed as her legs got paralyzed due to a fall in the washroom. Both the mother and son have caregivers. Ashok Babu was in a good government job that gave Jamini Devi enough money to look after themselves. They have their own two houses in Kolkata, one in which they live and the other is on rent.

Abir can use the laptop but not for long. He cannot speak but can make sounds. Jamini Devi though on bed can speak but she too cannot hear properly. The result is that they never pick up any phone calls. Though of course Abir can read messages and this way the relatives, ‘keep in touch’.

Whenever any relative visits their house they bite their lips and force the tears not to come down and when they leave all burst into loud cries.

Oh! God where was Abir wrong? What severe punishments to the parents? Why and why?

Is there any answer?