A happy Diwali?Harsh Mander, October 27, 2008

The tragedy of Bihar — the devastation wrought because the mighty river
Kosi changed course after it breached its embankment in Nepal on August
18 — has slipped off the pages of newspapers and TV screens. The
calamity has also been virtually ignored by most international
humanitarian aid agencies, and even national relief organizations. The
people affected are among the most impoverished in this land, and
floods seem to be part of the periodic tribulations that these hapless
people stoically cope with, along with caste violence, deaths by
starvation and militant violence. Surely this cannot continue to make
news!

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