Walking Towards Ourselves by Catriona Mitchell

Author:Catriona Mitchell [Mitchell, Catriona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Hardie Grant
Published: 2016-03-21T04:00:00+00:00

Cyclone Aila struck in summer.

It was dawn. Satyen, Taramoni’s husband, had gone to the field behind the house to clear his bowels. He came rushing back: ‘The water’s broken through the big embankment! We have to leave at once!’

Within moments, the salt water had entered the village.

It was already flooding into the house.

Somehow Taramoni and Satyen managed to wake up the two sleeping boys, make a bundle with whatever dry clothes were within reach, collect the money tucked above the bamboo beams beneath the roof and leave, taking shelter in the raised verandah of the middle school.

They saw numerous other families like theirs from the village rushing in, one by one, with a few meagre possessions.

The speed of the wind rose as the day advanced. The raging storm was uprooting trees and dislodging tin roofs from houses. They let Bhanumoti the cow loose so that she could escape the flood, but what if she was killed by a flying tin roof or a falling tree?

How could the strong and sturdy embankments, built during the era of the zamindars1, actually break? That morning when Aila came, bringing with it such chaos, there was little time to ponder this.

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