Mumbai, March 23: Goodwill Society in JB Nagar, Chakala, can easily be missed - a four-storey rundown block with two wings, it is part of a gated cluster of cooperative housing societies called Orchid Enclave.
The tree-lined bylane outside the building in the middle-class neighbourhood in Andheri East is quiet despite the banks, hardware stores, cycle repair shops and sundry grocery stores that line it.
Almost everyone on the street today knew the way to the home of Nidhi Chaphekar - the Jet Airways cabin manager who was injured in the Brussels airport blast.
"Hardly anyone here knew till this morning that the face of the Brussels blast victims is a resident of our society. It was not nice to see Madam's picture in the morning papers with her clothes burnt and her undergarments showing. The least they could have done is to cover her," said Lalit Babu, the chief security guard of Orchid Enclave.
Many in the locality said they knew of the "airhostess lady" of Goodwill apartments, but few recalled having seen her till the papers published her picture this morning.
"We know the Chaphekar residence, we often supply groceries to them, but had not seen Nidhi madam till today," said Vaishnavi, a salesgirl at OneStop, a supermarket outside Goodwill Society where the Chaphekars live in apartment B401 on the third floor.
Soma Roy, their neighbour, said: "They are a joint family. Nidhi is married to Rupesh, the elder brother. They live with Rupesh's younger brother Nilesh and wife Madhura and their mother. They have lived here for 12 years. They are a happy close-knit family."
Nidhi's two children, Vardan (14) and Vidhi (11), go to an international school in Powai. When she is not flying, she is largely at home or taking her children to school or tuitions.
"She is a working mother and very responsible towards her family. When the family got to know about Nidhi being injured in the blast, the children were still in school," Soma said.
The Chaphekars were not at home this afternoon.
Soma's husband Sambit Roy, who runs a logistics and courier firm, said: "They have gone out for a short while for some important work - the whole family has. The Indian embassy personnel have contacted them and taken them for some paperwork.
"Nidhi's husband Rupesh runs a wrought iron and moulding business with his brother Nilesh. Nilesh told me this morning that Nidhi is conscious but has received considerable burns."
Rupesh and Nilesh are leaving for Paris tonight by an Air France flight and would take a train or go by road to Brussels, said Sambit, whose hometown is Siliguri. "We jokingly call them the Chaphekar brothers," he added.
The Chaphekar brothers were freedom fighters who assassinated British plague commissioner W.C. Rand in Pune in 1897 - the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria's coronation. The three brothers were subsequently arrested, tried and hanged.
Two brothers of Amit Motwani, Nidhi's cabin colleague who too was injured, and Jet officials will also fly with the Chaphekars, an airline source said.
