#Monsoons

Loadshedding

Posted on by Moni Basu

India has come a long way since my childhood. And not. This week’s headlines: Celsius rises, so does loadshedding. In American English, this means temperatures soaring above 100 degrees Fahrenheit and no electricity for hours and hours and hours. That’s the way it was when I was growing up in Kolkata. The only relief was …

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The water has come

Posted on by Moni Basu

Once again, thousands of Indians have been affected by flooding in the monsoon season. It’s become a regular sight to us, and we saw it here in America in the aftermath of Katrina. But few of us can imagine the forceful nature of water as enemy. I remember my father’s aunt putting her bed up …

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