Their "shining star" had slipped away to the skies above, a Gaigaon resident said today, echoing the grief of Dr Harshad Wankhede's family and others in the village as they prepared for the last rites of the AIIMS doctor killed in an accident near Mathura. That the young doctor was killed while on his way to celebrate his 30th birthday deepened the gloom in the small village of Gaigaon in Maharashtra's Akola district. The senior resident doctor at Delhi's premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences, who leaves behind his parents and a sister, was the pride of Gaigaon and its 5,000 people.