Just ‘Lost’… With a Fever… In Brussels…
In the age of instant messaging, where every moment is captured through texts, pictures, and status updates, one message felt like a whisper lost in a storm. Istiak, a student from Bangladesh studying in Germany, had gone off the grid. His last messages were confusing, disjointed: an Instagram story, a WhatsApp status from a train in Luxembourg, then nothing. Panic spread through his friend circles across multiple platforms. Group chats flooded with concerned messages, each ping echoing the rising dread. Some claimed to have seen him just days ago; others were unsure if his last known location was even real. In a sea of information, the truth was drowning. “Has anyone heard from Istiak?” “His project in Brussels was critical, right?” questioned Sarah, from Germany, anxiously typing. “He was supposed to be in Brussels for an IMC project,” piped up Mohan from India. “That’s what he told me last week.” But Klaus, a coordinator from Germany, firmly stated, “There is n
