RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Bats were raised high, pink bal­loons drift­ed sky­ward, and tears flowed freely as fam­i­ly, friends and team­mates bid a fi­nal farewell to slain crick­eter Rashme Deoa­jit, whose life was cut short in a bru­tal at­tack last week.

Dressed in her crick­et uni­form, Deoa­jit’s body was car­ried through the com­mu­ni­ty she loved—Boodram Trace, Granville—be­fore the fu­ner­al pro­ces­sion moved on to the Mos­qui­to Creek Shore of Peace for cre­ma­tion. Along the route, mourn­ers paused for Hin­du rites, with prayers led by Pun­dit Prab­hudeo.