Family anxiously waits for Boston boy's body

BHUBANESWAR: The body of Boston University management student Kangala Seshadri Rao was taken from Boston to New York, his father Sudhakar Rao said here on Sunday.
"I am hopeful that all official formalities should be complete by Monday and the body would be sent to India so that it reaches here by Wednesday," the bereaved father told TOI. "I want an early funeral of my son for the eternal peace of his soul," said Sudhakar, who works in a bank in Jeypore town.He said the family wants to complete Seshadri's last rites in Puri.
The 24-year-old, who was doing MBA in mathematical finance at Boston University School of Management, was found shot dead outside his Allston Street accommodation near the university campus.
"After that I have to help my wife Bijaylaxmi and younger son survive this tragic loss," he said. Notably, Sudhakar's second son K Sandeep Rao, who is a student of National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) in Bhubaneswar, has been appearing his semester examination these days.
Sudhakar said the Indian government should do more to ensure safety of Indian citizens studying abroad. "As an individual, I can't do much other than learn to live with the hard reality. The government should take steps to ensure safety for its people."
The aggrieved father said the Indian embassy told him it would try to book an afternoon flight either to Delhi or Mumbai depending on the time when the procedural works are over, and the availability of flight.
Sudhakar said in a country like America, where intelligence gathering is supposed to be faster, it is deplorable that no significant headway has been made even after four days of the killing.