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Against all odds | ‘I saw my family sitting there… tears wouldn’t stop’: How this nonagenarian Pune resident travelled alone to Pakistan in 2022 to visit her childhood home | Pune News

Against all odds | ‘I saw my family sitting there… tears wouldn’t stop’: How this nonagenarian Pune resident travelled alone to Pakistan in 2022 to visit her childhood home | Pune News

Her hair is neatly brushed back, her cheeks glow with a hint of a tint, and her face crinkles into a smile that makes her eyes sparkle. That’s Reena Verma for you, 94, who lives on her own in her second-floor apartment in a building without a lift in Salunke Vihar, cooks her own food, goes for dance and yoga class every week, and stays up late scrolling through Facebook. But her biggest feat, she says, is none of these. “What I am really proud of is that I took to technology and made friends with it – that’s what keeps me going,” she smiles. “I love going on YouTube, Facebook, and am on so many WhatsApp groups.” It was one of those WhatsApp groups that also gave her the biggest adventure of her life at 91. From Pindi to Pune Verma was born in 1932 in undivided Punjab’s Rawalpindi. The family that included six children – four boys and two girls, with Verma being the youngest – had an upper-middle-class lifestyle with summers spent …