 Kalpana Chawla Residents of Nar Mohammadpur village, about 35 km from here, where little
Upasana is visiting her relatives, think she might be the reincarnation of
the India born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who died when US space shuttle
Columbia crashed four years ago.
The news of the girl`s claim spread quickly in the area after she spoke to
some villagers here.
`I am Kalpana Chawla,` says Upasana, who reportedly fears the sight an
aircraft. She has been telling her illiterate parents that she died in a
`crash` up in the skies.
`Upasana has been telling us ever since she started speaking that her name
was Kalpana Chawla and that her father`s name was Banarsi Das Chawla but we
could not figure out anything as we had never heard of Kalpana,` Upasana`s
father Raj Kumar told reporters Friday.
Raj Kumar is a resident of Pata village of Etawah district where he works as
a labourer.
`Yet Upasana`s proclamation led us all to believe that she was actually
talking about her previous birth,` he said. `She claims that the spacecraft
was hit by a huge ball of ice that sent it crashing and ended her life.`
Upasana was born barely two months after the astronaut`s death in 2003.
Bureau Report
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