<p>However, her tour turned into a nightmare as she lost both her hands after the bus she was travelling in met with a ghastly accident in Nepal.<br /><br />The tales of three other elderly women from the city of palaces - who reached Delhi on Wednesday - are heartrending as all of them have lost their hands in the mishap. <br /><br />A group of 55 people from Mysore, mostly elderly women, had ventured on the 33-day tour in a private bus visiting holy places in North India. After visiting Delhi, Haridwar and Ayodhya, they decided to go to Nepal to visit the Pushupatinath temple. <br /><br />After visiting the temple, they were on their way to Varanasi. But their happy journey ended there as their bus fell into a 2,000-foot-deep gorge in the wee hours of May 29 in Nawalparasi district. <br /><br />The accident took away the life of one woman – she died on the spot – while several others were injured. Of them, Jayamma from Tilaknagar in Mysore was admitted to Bharatpur hospital in Nepal and is still in a critical condition. <br /><br />Among the survivors, J Jayamma from Chaluvamba Agrahara lost her hands while, Renuka (40), Mahadevi (39) residents of Gayatripuram, Nagamma (60) from Kodagu lost their right hands. <br /><br />After spending 10 days in a Nepal hospital, all four women returned to Delhi on their way back home to Mysore. When Deccan Herald met them at Karnataka Bhavan all of them were still in a state of shock. <br /><br />Mysore MP H Vishwanath and Karnataka Government Additional Special Representative B N Nagesh made arrangements to bring them from Nepal to Delhi and send them to Bangalore in a flight. The Karnataka Government arranged flight tickets for all the four women and those who accompanied them. <br /><br />“Till we returned to Delhi, we were restless as we neither knew the language nor anybody in that country. We belong to lower middle class families and have little communication skills,” says Gowramma, another traveller while expressing her difficulties faced in foreign country. “I was in deep sleep early in the morning as we were tired of the long journey. Suddenly the bus plunged into a deep gorge with a deafening sound. I don’t know what happened after that. <br /><br />“After two days, when I gained consciousness, I was lying on a hospital bed to see that I had lost my hands,” recalls J Jayamma fighting back tears. <br /><br />Still under shock, Jayamma continues, “I don’t know what to do in future. Who will take care of me as I can’t take care of myself”. Having two sons (one son is handicapped) she says, “Why should I undergo this punishment and what mistake did I make in my life”. <br />Mahadevi (39) from Gayatripuram lost her right hand. Having two school-going children, she has to take care of the household chores as well. Her husband is retired and she does not have income to appoint a maid to take care of her family. <br /></p>
<p>However, her tour turned into a nightmare as she lost both her hands after the bus she was travelling in met with a ghastly accident in Nepal.<br /><br />The tales of three other elderly women from the city of palaces - who reached Delhi on Wednesday - are heartrending as all of them have lost their hands in the mishap. <br /><br />A group of 55 people from Mysore, mostly elderly women, had ventured on the 33-day tour in a private bus visiting holy places in North India. After visiting Delhi, Haridwar and Ayodhya, they decided to go to Nepal to visit the Pushupatinath temple. <br /><br />After visiting the temple, they were on their way to Varanasi. But their happy journey ended there as their bus fell into a 2,000-foot-deep gorge in the wee hours of May 29 in Nawalparasi district. <br /><br />The accident took away the life of one woman – she died on the spot – while several others were injured. Of them, Jayamma from Tilaknagar in Mysore was admitted to Bharatpur hospital in Nepal and is still in a critical condition. <br /><br />Among the survivors, J Jayamma from Chaluvamba Agrahara lost her hands while, Renuka (40), Mahadevi (39) residents of Gayatripuram, Nagamma (60) from Kodagu lost their right hands. <br /><br />After spending 10 days in a Nepal hospital, all four women returned to Delhi on their way back home to Mysore. When Deccan Herald met them at Karnataka Bhavan all of them were still in a state of shock. <br /><br />Mysore MP H Vishwanath and Karnataka Government Additional Special Representative B N Nagesh made arrangements to bring them from Nepal to Delhi and send them to Bangalore in a flight. The Karnataka Government arranged flight tickets for all the four women and those who accompanied them. <br /><br />“Till we returned to Delhi, we were restless as we neither knew the language nor anybody in that country. We belong to lower middle class families and have little communication skills,” says Gowramma, another traveller while expressing her difficulties faced in foreign country. “I was in deep sleep early in the morning as we were tired of the long journey. Suddenly the bus plunged into a deep gorge with a deafening sound. I don’t know what happened after that. <br /><br />“After two days, when I gained consciousness, I was lying on a hospital bed to see that I had lost my hands,” recalls J Jayamma fighting back tears. <br /><br />Still under shock, Jayamma continues, “I don’t know what to do in future. Who will take care of me as I can’t take care of myself”. Having two sons (one son is handicapped) she says, “Why should I undergo this punishment and what mistake did I make in my life”. <br />Mahadevi (39) from Gayatripuram lost her right hand. Having two school-going children, she has to take care of the household chores as well. Her husband is retired and she does not have income to appoint a maid to take care of her family. <br /></p>
