UC Berkeley Remembers Student Tarishi Jain Killed In The Dhaka Attack With A Heartfelt Eulogy

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UC Berkeley Remembers Student Tarishi Jain Killed In The Dhaka Attack With A Heartfelt Eulogy


Indian student Tarishi Jain, who was among the 20 hostages killed in the Dhaka terror attack, was remembered by her staff and peers at UC Berkeley in a moving eulogy. Several professors, students and friends of Tarishi's gathered on Tuesday on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza to pay their tributes to the late sophomore, who was visiting the Dhaka capital for her summer internship. Chancellor Nick Dirks, along with Tarishi's peers and dorm mates, stood next to a blow-up photo of a smiling Tarishi, a huge bouquet of flowers, and American, Indian and Bangladeshi flags.



Dirks said, "We have lost a precious member of our community, and we are so much the poorer because of it," reports The Associated Press.

The announcement of the candlelight vigil was mentioned in an elaborate eulogy, posted by Director Lawrence Cohen on the Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley website.

"There will be a memorial and vigil for Tarishi and for all who lost their lives in Dhaka, on the Berkeley campus this coming Tuesday, July 5, at noon Pacific time, on the steps of Sproul Plaza where the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s was born. If we are able to get the event live-streamed, we will provide a link here."

An excerpt from the eulogy reads as follows:

"None of these words, quickly written and of necessity uncertain, can address the aftermath of this violence. We mourn our student and classmate Tarishi, we stand with her family and friends. We stand with our many colleagues and friends in Dhaka touched by this violence."

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