Texas mall shooting: Friends & family bid farewell to Aishwarya Thatikonda, leaders console kin

Texas mall shooting: Friends & family bid farewell to Aishwarya Thatikonda, leaders console kin
Dallas residents write messages on a heart-shaped cross set up on Aishwarya Thatikonda’s name at a makeshift memorial by the mall where several people were killed in a shootout recently
HYDERABAD: The grieving family of Aishwarya Thatikonda performed her funeral in Nagole on Thursday.
The body of Aishwarya, 27, was taken to the Nagole cremation grounds where her last rites were performed.
A large number of people, friends, relatives and residents of HUDA Colony in Saroornagar visited the family of Aishwarya and conveyed their condolences to them. Aishwarya's father T Narsi Reddy is a judge in Rangareddy district courts.
Energy minister G Jagadish Reddy, MLAs Gadari Kishore and Shanampudi Saidireddy visit the family and expressed their condolences. Narsi Reddy hails from Suryapet. The mortal remains of Aishwarya, who was killed in a mass shooting incident at Allen Mall near Dallas in the US on May 6, arrived in Hyderabad on May 10 evening. Aishwarya Thatikonda was working in a Texas firm as a project engineer.
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Ch Sushil Rao
Sushil Rao is Editor-Special Reports, at The Times of India, Hyderabad. He began his journalism career at the age of 20 in 1988. He is a gold medalist in journalism from the Department of Communication and Journalism, Arts College, Osmania University, Hyderabad from where he did his post-graduation from. He has been with The Times of India’s Hyderabad edition since its launch in 2000. He has also done an introductory course in film studies from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, and also from the Central University of Kerala equipping himself with the knowledge of filmmaking for film criticism. He has authored four books. In his career spanning 34 years, he has worked for five newspapers and has also done television reporting. He was also a web journalist during internet’s infancy in the mid 1990s in India. He covers defence, politics, diaspora, innovation, administration, the film industry, Hyderabad city and Telangana state, and human interest stories. He is also a podcaster, blogger, does video reporting and makes documentaries.
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