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MUMBAI: It is a sad duty one performs, but rarely, of reporting on the death of a colleague, more so if it is sudden and violent.
Sabina Sehgal Saikia, Times of India's New Delhi-based consulting editor and food critic, was declared dead on Saturday, being a victim of the terror attack on the Taj Mahal hotel here.
Bold, bubbly and beautiful, Sabina had a fourth "B" tagged to her personality - a Bindi or a big red dot on her big forehead, the mark of a Hindu married woman.
She had come to Mumbai to attend the wedding of the son of her colleague, Bachi Karkaria, another celebrity Times of India journalist and columnist, a day earlier and was staying at the Taj.
Close to tears, Bachi told TV channels of the personal grief she suffered, which hurt more since Sabina had come especially to be part of the wedding celebrations.
Sabina was on the sixth floor of the Taj that was totally gutted during the 60-hour siege of the hotel that lasted till yesterday afternoon.Sabina was Delhi's bestknown food critic.
Hoteliers and restaurateurs dreaded her verdict as that could make or mar them in the market.
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