Once the rubble is cleared, Saidpur will be planted with trees and will become part of the city's greenbelt, he said. So the people of Saidpur have been uprooted to make way for trees, but they have not given up hope that somehow the new regime will be their salvation. In the two and a half weeks since the coup, no bulldozers have returned to the village to finish off the job. By day children play in the ruins. Little girls in dingy dresses walk on the craggy, broken walls like dainty gymnasts on the balance beam.
Boys aimlessly toss the chunks of hay, mud and stone that once enclosed their families.
Indeed, to the people of Saidpur, the Prime Minister's overthrow seems to be divine retribution. He brought our houses down and he fell down.