: ‘We understood no help was coming’: A Odisha medical student’s hellish escape from Ukraine #IndiaNEWS Basant Kumar Nayak works as a cameraperson with a television channel in Odisha. On the night

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‘We understood no help was coming’: A Odisha medical student’s hellish escape from Ukraine #IndiaNEWS
Basant Kumar Nayak works as a cameraperson with a television channel in Odisha. On the night of March 8, he was at the Bhubaneswar airport, where 33 students from the state, who had fled the war in Ukraine, were expected to arrive. A swarm of media crews was positioned outside the arrival gate. But Nayak stood away from them, with his wife and five other relatives, one of whom held a box of sweets. Around 11 pm, Nayak spotted a young, lanky man, dressed in a black jacket and white sneakers, hair tied back in a bun, walking out of the gate. He looked exhausted. Nayak rushed towards him, breaking down in tears as he hugged him. His wife followed suit. But before she could pull their son into her arms, the television cameras and microphones intruded. The journalists wanted Nayak’s son, 19-year-old Pralay Kumar Nayak, to tell them about the war that he had just escaped.The journey to UkraineThe Nayaks live in Jajpur, a town 100 km from Bhubaneswar. Pralay Nayak, their only child, grew up wanting to be a doctor. In 2020, he cleared the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for admissions to medical colleges in India, but his marks were too low for him to...Read more

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