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

March 8, 2001

10-year-old Sumrasuhail Yusuf (yellow shirt) was dressing up for the Republic Day function when the quake struck. That was when he last saw his mother alive. His father, a welding mechanic in Dubai for the last four years, has taken leave for five months to be with his son. Suhail purses his lips confidently and says he will now live with his grandmother. Behind the children are the camp's make-shift toilets.

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