India, May 3 -- The bodies of Merina (39), her four-year-old son Trishan Kumar and her mother Madhur Massey arrived in Delhi on Saturday, and were carried through a west Delhi neighbourhood in Mayapuri where hundreds had gathered to receive them - among them Merina's husband Pradeep Kumar (45), who had survived the Narmada Queen capsize in Jabalpur, and kept returning to the same thought.

"It was my decision to take them there," he said, as relatives tried to steady him beside the coffins. "Had I not taken that decision, my wife, my son and my mother-in-law would have been alive today."

The family had gone to Jabalpur earlier in the week for a housewarming ceremony and had taken the boat ride as a brief outing on Thursday evening before...