Berkeley student Tarishi Jain was spending the summer before her sophomore year on a university-sponsored internship in Bangladesh, part of her long-term dream to use her economics education to lift up the country’s people.
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Tarishi, a student at UC Berkeley, was on vacation in Dhaka. Her father runs a garment business in Bangladesh for the past 15-20 years.
Just months ago, her cousin recalled, Jain was regaling her relatives with stories of her Berkeley experiences during a family visit to India.
The Hindu has learnt that an Indian doctor, Satyapal, was among the hostages but was rescued.
Jain was an worldwide student from India, intending to major in economics.
“She was a vivacious girl”.
Jain’s closest friends said they don’t want her death to define her legacy of compassion and ambition to make the world a better place. “The entire extended family got together for lunch when they came”. “When we received the news, I was helpless and tweeted to Sushma Swaraj to help my sister”, she said.
“Emory University has learned that two Emory students, Abinta Kabir and Faraaz Hossain, were among those taken hostage and murdered by terrorists yesterday in the attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh”.
“The attack in Dhaka has pained us beyond words”, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter.
She was extremely talented and a gold-medalist badminton player, the family said, as they talked of Tarishi’s accomplishments and grieved their loss at their family home in Firozabad.
Family members told reporters Jain had called them from inside a restaurant restroom as the attackers began shooting.
Shirish Jain had read about the attack in Dhaka before going to sleep Friday.
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Harrell said she trained Kabir to replace Hossain. “Our mind doesn’t think like that, you know”.
