Bihar Diary-IV: Love and Loss General by The Delhi Walla - September 15, 20080 GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries.Don't forget Bihar's human tragedy.[Text and picture by Mayank Austen Soofi]I spent a week volunteering in relief efforts in flooded regions of Bihar.The abrupt shift in Kosi's course in Bihar has flooded farm fields, submerged villages, drowned people but it has, so far, failed to snuff out the romance in the life of "perhaps 18 or 19-year-old" Mr Tuntun Kumar (middle in the picture), a "flood victim" at a relief camp in Purnia's spanking new Aastha Mandir. Despite the catastrophe unfurling around him, Mr Tuntun Kumar remains lost in the thoughts of Mrs Archana Devi, his "perhaps 16 or 17-year-old wife" who is still struggling
9/13 – Memoirs of the Day After General by The Delhi Walla - September 15, 20080 GO STRAIGHT TO CITY CLASSIFIEDS & CITY EVENTSGO STRAIGHT TO MORE STORIESContact mayankaustensoofi@gmail.com for ad enquiries.Making sense in the aftermath.[Text by Priya Sen; picture by Mayank Austen Soofi]India Gate, September 13th, 6.20 or so in the evening. I had decided to walk from Triveni Kala Academy towards Khan Market. India Gate was as India Gate is on a weekend evening. Walking through it made me think of other times I had been there, a few specific memories and a general sense of being in Delhi - of familiarity and ease from having been here for as long as I have. It took 15 minutes to cross over to Shah Jahan Road. Later I heard there were a couple of bombs