Summary:
On anyother day, Vankar would be going to her business. "She is in shock and can't come to terms with seeing Bhanubhai going up in flames," said Mithabhai, a neighbour who has come to visit her. The sexagenarian had threatened to immolate herself in front of the collectorate with two others. Her children say she is now extremely nervous and often does not recognise what is being told to her. Hema Vankar now sits mute in her small house in Dhudhka village of Sami taluka in Patan district..