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69 days of solitude :: Hindustan Times
Rahul Karmakar, Hindustan Times, June 26, 2010
Bhabini Devi could have prepared tea. But she had to make a choice; she opted for the kerosene to be used for the generator to make the guests comfortable in the sultry heat. These are hard times, a kin reassured her, the guests would understand. They did......
The home fires still have to be lit. So Keke Phongthan, 45, a gadget repairer and the Thingnams’ neighbour, has gone back to the “days of charcoal”. He agrees cooking on charcoal isn’t healthy for his wife, but this is better than waiting for LPG at four times the market rate.
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But there’s a bright side to the crisis Manipur continues to face even after the blockade was lifted ‘temporarily’. As rights activist Babloo Loitongbam puts it, “Think of a time when the world runs out of petroleum and a blockade-like situation is enforced. We can then perhaps export our survival strategies”.
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