rediff.com: Hope & Succour: Gujarat, a month after the earthquake

March 8, 2001

This used to be Purbai Hirani and husband Kishanvaji's two-storeyed home in Sukhpar, 8 km from Bhuj. The farming couple lived here for over 40 years, but today their village is a mass of rubble. They live in a tent nearby and come to their destroyed home every morning to dig out belongings. It is a ritual they have followed since the quake.

Photographs: Dominic Xavier/ Text: Archana Masih