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MOBILES
TO THE
RESCUE!
24 MYMOBILE SEP 15 to OCT 14 2008
spotlight
Anand Singh brings to you some real
life incidents, which display the power
and reach of cellphones
July 12, 2008,
Supratim Dutta, an execu-
tive with HCL, was on
the way to his office inGurgaon, Haryana. He
was traveling in the office cab.
Suddenly, the driver lost control
and hit the Metro barricades on
Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road in Delhi.
The impact was so intense that a
five feet long and two-inch wide
iron angle pierced through the
bonnet and the dashboard into
Supratims (who was sitting next
to the driver) torso.
Despite that, Supratim acted
quickly. He tried to call his fatherbut as he was out for morning
walk. So his mother picked the
call and then Supratim told her
about the incident. After that he
rang up his colleague Akshay
who sent Saurabh Aggarwal,
another friend who was nearby,
to the accident site.
By the time the police and
ambulance reached the site, and
the angle rod was cut with the
help of gas cutters, it was peak
traffic time on the M-G road.
Here too the Delhi police used
their mobile phones to inform
the traffic Police and got the traf-
fic diverted from that area. This
helped them to take Supritam to
the Jai Prakash Narayan APEX
Trauma Centre, AIIMS, without
wasting any time. When theambulance reached the hospital
security guards informed Dr
Sushma Sagar and Dr Biplab
Mishra on their cellphones.
August 3, 2008Priti Narayan, a teacher of
English at Ramjas School, Pusa
Road, was waiting at the Tilak
Nagar Metro station with her
nine-year old son Siddharth.
When the train arrived and all
boarded it, Siddharth realized
that his mother had been left
behind at the station!
As the train left the station,
passengers asked the scared child
his mothers cellphone number
and asked her to come to the
Subhash Nagar station by the
next train. Priti Narayan, whowas initially afraid for her sons
safety, later said that she was
reassured once she spoke to him
on the cellphone. She thanked
technology for reuniting her with
her son quickly and without
much ado or waste of time and
emotion.
In July, there was another inci-
dent where the tail of an airplane
touched the runway pad and got
damaged while landing at the
Delhi airport. The passengers
were not aware of what had actu-
ally happened. There were no
media photographers or cameras
to beam live images of the inci-
That day I went for a morning walk leaving my mobile at
my home. Suddenly my son called my wife and explained
the situation to her. She then informed me about our sons critical situation. I
was completely nervous and called Dr Mukhopadhyaya at AIIMS.
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