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RIP Tarishi Jain, A Life Snuffed Out at Just 19 

Jain had finished her schooling from the American School in Dhaka and was pursuing her studies in California.

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Tarishi Jain, a 19 year old Indian girl , was among the 20 killed by ISIS in Dhaka’s Holey Artisan Bakery attack. She was an Economics student at California’s Berkeley College and was in Dhaka for an internship.

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Tarishi’s relatives said she had gone to Holey with her friends for dinner on Friday night. The relatives were informed about her death after 3 am. They have requested the government to bring back her body to India.

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External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted saying she’s arranging visa for Tarishi’s relatives to visit Bangladesh, as they are deeply saddened and wanted to go to Dhaka.

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She was reportedly awarded an internship program by Eastern Bank Limited in 2016 and her project was on ‘EBL-commerce growth opportunity in Bangladesh’.

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Tarishi’s Facebook profile showed she was a member of the International Students Association at Berkeley. She posted photographs with friends and family, and from past vacations in Switzerland and Turkey.

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Her father Sanjeev Jain has been running a garment business in Bangladesh for last 15-20 years.

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Twitter Mourns Tarishi’s Death

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