An Appeal for Lost Child

This a 1964 picture of Apurva and her younger brother.
Please read on.

Hello friends,
I have a very noble cause behind sending this mail to all of
you.
Please spare some time to read through it.
My Army friend met a guy named Mr. Ravi Shankar
on the train when he was returning from chennai
on 26th of December, 2008.
I was having a regular chat with him regarding the
Army and its rules and regulations and how the forces
are admired in our country.
He then told me about a shocking tragedy that his
family went through and hence I write this mail to
your seeking your help.
He told me that he was posted in CAR-NICOBAR in the
year 2004 as a seargent in the INDIAN AIR-FORCE..
On 26th of December that year his family fell victim
to the unfortunate Tsunami that struck out eastern coast.
He along with his wife and two children(photo below)
were washed in the deadly waters.
Reaching out his wife managed to cling onto a tree but
his small son(picture insight on the left)had swollowed too
much water and passed away in her arms.
Ravi also in desperation to swim lost grip of his
daughter's(APURVA) hand.
She was washed away and was never to be found again,
until one day they came to know of her being sighted
at a relief camp.
On contacting the authorities they came to know that
this little girl was abducted from the relief camp and
was missing again.
Since then Mr.. Ravi Shankar has been travelling to Chennai
every year with a hope to see his daughter.
He has been publishing MISSING coloums in
major daily's in chennai,and he showed me how much
these newspapers had charged him for a those ad's.
One of the major newspapers charged him a whopping amount
of 12000 rupees for a 4 X 4 cm ad(that too on the fourth page).
Please donot consider this mail a regular chain mail and do
care to forward this to your near and dear ones.
He requested me to do something to reach out to
people who use e-media(internet etc.).
I myself have posted her picture on my blog and I request
people who own there personal blog pages to
post this girl's picture there as it could be of significant help.
In case any news of any nature is found regarding her (APURVA)
please drop in a mail at the below mentioned
mail id's or the following
address.

1. James mathew( 123.mathew@gmail. com )
2. Amit kumar ( amitkumarmajor@ hotmail.com )
3. khem chandra pan ( khemchandrapan@ yahoo.com )

Or contact:

Mr. RAVI SHANKAR
SMQ – 17/2
AF VAYUSENABAD
TUGLAKABAD
NEW DELHI-110062

Thanks and regards

Wg Cdr(Retd) Pratap Deshpande
G 304 Purva Fairmont
Sector 2
HSR Layout
Bangalore 560 102

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