Sarojini’s long wait for her son | “My son is alive, but they are afraid to release him”:
It has been nine years since Sarojini Naganathan last saw her only son, Rajiv. The latter, along with four others, was abducted on September 17, 2008, a day before he was scheduled to leave for the United Kingdom for higher studies.
A lover of animals, cricket and a studious child, Sarojini says, she prays daily for his return and for the capture of all the perpetrators. Despite having last heard from her son in May, 2011, she holds on to the belief that Rajiv is still being held in an undisclosed location.
“My son is alive, but they are afraid to release him,” she says, adding that it is as if life has stopped since Rajiv was taken from them. “We spend our lives just waiting for our child to be returned to us” she says. Having suffered a fate worse than death, having lost her only child, Sarojini says, she is now fearless
“I will fight for justice and find my son in whichever way possible,” she says, adding that she is pained by the callous statements made about her child by certain individuals,” she says.