Kolkata / Kalimpong: around 11pm, Sunday, almost two days since he reached Kabul Airport, the 34-year-old Tamal Bhattacharya finally gave a smile.
The last few days of anxiety finally ended.
He managed to escape from a horror who opened back in Afghanistan.
Nimta North Dum Dum, a mechanical engineer with training, has left home in March to take teaching physics and work chemistry at Kardan International School, an army school in Kabul.
He is one of 10 Bengal citizens flying back on Sunday.
He hadn’t arrived at home but when Ti followed him, it would likely reach around midnight.
Over the past few months, ‘home’ is a place for school staff.
Since the takeover of Taliban, he has locked himself in his headmaster’s house, near the airport, not daring to get out.
“I have contacted the Indian Embassy in Kabul and tried several times to reach the airport, but I could not,” he said before leaving for Kolkata.
“The airport was surrounded by armed Taliban people.
Around 11pm, Friday, we managed to reach the airport gate along with other Indians.
But American forces initially refused to allow us inside because there were no government officials who accompanied us with documents The government.
“Bhattacharya said:” We had to wait outside the airport for several hours on Friday night.
Then, we were accommodated in the wedding hall near the airport.
That’s when Indian Air Force officers arrived.
They helped us take a flight with late Saturday.
” Only after getting news about the arrival of Tamal in Delhi was early on Sunday morning that his parents – Shyamal and Interest – breathe easily, after the idol tension.
“I managed to contact him in Chat a few minutes before he took a Ghaziabad-bound flight on Saturday.
Now we feel relieved because our only son has managed to return from Afghanistan,” Shyamal said, 66.
Minati said: “From what we see On TV, I was very scared, especially because he taught at the army school.
We have lost contact with him for a few days.
I continue to pray.
“More than 600 km in Kalimpong, Landing Plane IAF images in India playing on TV Finally carrying a smile in Sudeshna Subba.
Her husband, Subba reached India with the same flight after spending three nights at Kabul Airport.
“I used to wait for the phone, and every time he called, I would hear another scary sound and voice.
I can’t stay calm,” Sudeshna said.
Subba, a former army and the Veteran of the Cargil War, has gone to Afghanistan only on August 3, a little hoping to immediately return.
His old mother said Subba had struggled for his country, but this Afghan experience was more frightening now, “he struggled for his life”.