He was relieved to see us all right. The complex is barely a mile away from my house. We took off for there. But not before we had bought bottled water and some biscuits and wafers for my son and a few other children of our housing society who all had assembled in the same garden where they played in the evenings on normal days. The grocer did roaring business.
Earthquakes are great levelers the world seemed to be living on the footpath.
It was difficult to drive. Everyone, just about everyone, was on roads. Thank god, it is a winter morning. Nilesh mumbled as he tried to rev up the engine. At Mansi, a wing of the 10-storeyed building had collapsed.