If India gives us aid we would welcome it.
He was very ill and we thought it was our duty to take care of him on humanitarian grounds. We didn't consider what might happen later.
Our children area crying and we have no food or water -- we have nothing,
Some of them have bullet wounds. All of them are Shiites.
This year it was warm weather, that is why there is early bloom. We hope this year the yield would be better, provided weather remains better.
What the government gave is a pittance. To reconstruct my home I need about 200,000 rupees. Now because of the quake I cannot work in my farms. The choice is between going hungry and making a house. So we decided to spend as little on the house and keep the rest for emergency rations.
The sales have gone down by 40-50 per cent but we are not reducing our prices yet.
It's close to democracy, if not true democracy. Our problems are being solved.
It was a deafening explosion. Window panes of all the buildings here were smashed by the impact of the blast.