Across the river, into the night
May 14th 2008 ‘At least 199 killed in heat wave in Andhra Pradesh in the past week’ read a story in Tuesday’s newspaper. Resting in Bangalore after two days of travel in Andhra Pradesh, we sighed, “It could have been 202, including the three of us.” Four days later, in Kochi, we were to read another report, ‘Krishnagiri-Kolar hooch death toll crosses 100’, and thank our stars for still being able
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