Ex-Editor driven homeless in Mumbai

It might shock everyone as it shocked me. When the Times of India reported the story about sixty-five-year-old Sunita Naik, former editor of Marathi magazine 'Grihalaxmi', that she was living on the pavement outside a gudwara in Mumbai, I was shaken. She was a rich woman with two flats in Delhi. But what really went wrong that an editor of a reputed magazine had to spend her old age on the rough pavement under the blue sky.

Fate might take you down at any time of the life. Writers and editors are also bound to be ground in the wheels of time. Her only mistake was she believed too much on her colleagues. As she suspects, it is probably by her colleagues who manipulated and illegally robbed off her riches, forcing her to wander homeless at this stage of life.

However, she admits it to the newspaper that "I no longer live on the footpath, outside the gurdwara. I have found shelter with the couple - Gregory and Christine Misquitta - at their Vile Parle home. The couple gave her shelter after they learnt that she was spending her days on the pavement for about two months.

Indeed, it is difficult to believe whether she once was an editor of a reputed magazine and had two apartments in Worli and a bungalow in Pune. She also admits that she had Rs 50 lakh in her account. The problem and mystery is that she does not know where all it went. Her suspicion is purely on her employees.