Word: monsoon
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...perhaps, he continues, an unlikely national leader will emerge from the ranks of, say, teachers or human-rights activists. Then, Sondhi excuses himself. He goes and prays to the weather deities to ask them to forestall rain, lest the thousands of protesters at Government House get drenched by the monsoon. That night, Sondhi is lucky. No downpours come. But what will happen in the coming days, only the gods will know...
...India STILL STRANDED Rescue workers estimate that half a million people remain stranded almost two weeks after monsoon rains caused the worst flooding in northern India in nearly 50 years. Government and humanitarian agencies are struggling to feed the hundreds of thousands of evacuees, especially those in Bihar, above, the country's most populated and poverty-stricken state...
There was one thing different about this year's monsoon in India. As in so many seasons past, the annual rains began in June, flooding streets and villages and claiming dozens of lives. But when the Kosi River burst its banks on Aug. 18 in the northeastern state of Bihar, the destruction was much worse than anyone expected. "It is not a normal flood, but a catastrophe," Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar told reporters after flying over the affected areas...
...reach there," says Dinesh Kumar Mishra, a civil engineer and head of the non-profit group Barh Mukti Abhiyan (Freedom from Floods Campaign), who spoke to TIME from northern Bihar, where he is trying to organize relief efforts. "They are trapped." Mishra, who has been tracking monsoon floods for more than 20 years, says this year's flooding in Bihar is worse than previous years. "It is concentrated in a capsule form in one particular area," he says. Other monsoons may have killed or displaced more people, but the destruction was spread out over a larger territory...
September is the time India's big-game anglers pack their 10-weight rods and waders, and head to the Himalayas for a tryst with the golden mahseer, one of the fiercest freshwater fish in the world. Swollen by the monsoon, rivers gush down the rocky Himalayas - from the Ramganga in the western Himalayas to the Teesta in the east - and teem with the prized game. Living in fast-flowing currents, the mahseer is a ferocious giant - built to ascend the roaring rapids at spawning time - and gives sportfishermen a tough fight. Encounters with 40-pounders (18 kg) are commonplace...