NEW DELHI: Indian table tennis player Takeme Sarkar wanted to take her game to the next level and compete alongside world-class players. She decided to go to Spain in the last week of February 2020 to train. The paddler from Siliguri packed her bags, hugged her parents and her brother and departed for the airport. But she didn’t know that that was going to be her last goodbye to her younger brother.
Takeme, who is currently under lockdown in Spain due to the fast-spreading coronavirus pandemic, lost her younger brother in a road accident in March, just a month after she landed in Spain. All she could do was cry over the telephone and console her mother and father.
“My family is waiting for me back home in Siliguri. They are also in a terrible condition. I lost my younger brother in a road accident on March 23. I am shattered from inside. I am really worried about my f