“I have not seen my son ever, and he is 20 years old now,” said Kuldeep Singh, a 2005 Delhi bomb blast survivor who lost his eyesight while saving dozens of passengers of a DTC bus near Govindpuri.

As Delhi marks 20 years of the 2005 serial bomb blasts on Wednesday, survivors and families of those killed still live with memories of that fateful evening which fell just two days before Diwali.

The blasts had ripped through busy markets on October 29, 2005, killing 62 people and injuring 210.

Singh, who was a bus driver with the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), recalls that day vividly. “I was driving from Kalkaji Depot when a few passengers raised an alarm, saying there was a bomb in the back seat. I immediately drove the bus towards a quieter place and asked everyone to get down,” he r

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