NRI Helps Bereaved Indian Families

Brut India

For the last 17 years Iqbal Singh Bhatti has offered help to families who lost their loved ones in France. He helps transport the bodies of the deceased back home to India.

Transcript

00:00If anyone dies in the hands of Bharti,

00:06we send the dead body to Bharti with the help of Indian Embassy.

00:30We brought 10 men with us.

00:51Two boys came with me in the flight.

00:53One was the father and the other was the brother.

00:56They were friends.

00:57They went straight to their homes from the airport.

01:00I have 8 people with me.

01:03I will go to Jalandhar tomorrow.

01:05I will call all the families who are related to them.

01:08I have their numbers and they have my number.

01:13We will call all of them and handover the bodies to them.

01:27I have been living in Paris for the past 29 years.

01:41I am French and I came here as a Frenchman.

01:43In 2005, I established an association called Auror Dawn.

01:48I am not talking about one state.

01:53I am not a Punjabi.

01:57If anyone dies in the hands of Bharti,

02:04we send the dead body to Bharti with the help of Indian Embassy.

02:14If a family says that they cannot do this much,

02:19we do the same in Paris.

02:23I have sent 178 dead bodies from 2005 to India.

02:49We have sent 79 dead bodies to India with the help of Indian Embassy.

03:20I have heard that if a father dies, his son does not go to him.

03:32But I have carried this burden on my shoulders.

03:37I have performed their last rites with my own hands.

03:40I keep meeting the people who are alive in the hospital.

03:49For more information, visit www.fema.org

Category

Transcript

Recommended