They are destiny's children. After surviving almost fatal falls from steep heights, these 'miracle kids' continue to thrive. Having dodged death by just a whisker, for most their frightening experience lingers only as a distant if somewhat unpleasant memory. Shruti Bhargav, 24, a mediaperson, recently returned from a ten-day trip to the Himalayas. Like most youngsters these days, she puts in long hours at a highpressure job and needed the break to unwind from all the stress. "The trip was great, but I couldn't trek much because of my leg," she says.
Shruti was 11 when she fell from the fourth floor terrace of her apartment building in Borivli and sustained serious back and leg injuries. "I remember it was Sankranti and my friends and I had planned to fly kites on the terrace.
I started off all by myself and was trying to pull a kite that had gotten stuck. The next thing I knew I was in hospital surrounded by abunch of doctors and my very worried looking parents," she says, slightly amused as she narrates the tale. Shruti, who was lying unconscious, was spotted half an hour later by the building watchman and rushed to hospital.