'We don't look at the sky anymore': The Air India crash victims who were not on the plane

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The photographs are the first thing Prahlod Thakur sees when he wakes up.

They hang on the bright green peeling walls of his small Ahmedabad home, among religious icons, brass vessels and fading family portraits. One frame holds the face of his wife, Sarlaben. Another shows his granddaughter, Aadhya, wearing a white dress and smiling.

Both of them were in the BJ Medical College hostel complex, less than 2km (1.2 miles) from the Ahmedabad airport, when an Air India plane crashed into it in June last year. There were 260 victims - 241 were on the plane. Sarlaben and Aadhya were among the 19 killed on the ground.

"I just miss them," says Thakur. "I see the photos and feel like crying."

Investigators are soon expected to release a report on the crash. Much of the attention over the past year has focused on the passengers aboard the London-bound flight and the unanswered questions surrounding its final moments.

In Ahmedabad, another question lingers: what happens to a place after a catastrophe becomes part of its daily life?

Unlike most disaster sites, where the scars eventually disappear, at BJ Medical College grief has become a permanent resident.