'Janab I am not going to the shrine, I want to go into the village,' I pleaded with a bad tempered guard whose upturned mustache was as stern as his stare. 'What business you may have in the village . janab?' I am looking for a girl .' I paused to choose the words that could adequately explain the objective of my visit.

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Any investigative journalist in the true sense would try to understand how and why so much havoc is being wreaked by rains for a second successive year, with few lessons learned from last year's tragedy in terms of preparatory and preventive measure. It is possible to accept that it was unprecedented rainfall that was behind last year's calamity, but the same cannot be said of this year's floods. After what the whole country went through last summer, the authorities should have undertaken at least some precautionary measures.

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