Word: karsanbhai
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Sumati and Karsanbhai, encamped near Girishbhai's kitchen, are still waiting to hear from their 20-year-old son Vinod. He had left their home in Bhuj a few minutes before the quake struck, but there has been no sign of him since. Is he in another camp? Did he flee to his sister's home in Surat, to the south? Is his body lying lifeless under some mound of bricks and stone?or was it dumped, unrecognized, on a funeral pyre, like thousands of others? The couple, small and frail in their mid-fifties, are trapped somewhere between hope...
...Karsanbhai returns in the evening, grimy from sweat and worn from walking all day without food or water. He can't bear to look Sumati in the eye. "Any news?" she asks, keeping her voice as matter-of-fact as a mother's anxiety will allow. She knows the answer before Karsanbhai can deliver it: "No. Maybe tomorrow." At night, Sumati breaks down and wails for her missing son. Karsanbhai admonishes her: "Why are you grieving for somebody who isn't dead? You know we will find him, it's only a matter of days." An hour later...
...camps provide more than food and shelter. Huddled together in the winter cold, survivors are forming informal support groups to cope with their collective sorrow. One morning, as Karsanbhai prepares to leave for his daily search, two men step up and offer to join him. If they go in different directions, three can search more effectively than one. A fourth man brings them some bottles of water. Overwhelmed by this gesture, Karsanbhai hugs one of the men, sobbing uncontrollably...
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