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33 Killed as Bus Carrying Marriage Party Falls into Gorge in Uttarakhand

33 Killed as Bus Carrying Marriage Party Falls into Gorge in Uttarakhand

Thirty-three members of a wedding party were killed and 19 injured when a bus carrying them fell into a gorge in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal district, police said on Wednesday. The tragedy struck at around 7 pm on Tuesday as the bus, which was on its way to Kanda village in Bironkhal from Laldhang town in Haridwar, plunged into the 500-metre deep gorge near Simri bend. Local villagers were the…

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Fear of heavy casualties due to bus falling into a gorge in Pauri district of Uttarakhand

Fear of heavy casualties due to bus falling into a gorge in Pauri district of Uttarakhand

A large number of casualties are feared when a bus carrying about 45-50 members of a wedding party fell into a gorge in Bironkhal area of ​​Pauri district of Uttarakhand on Tuesday evening.The bus was on its way from Laldhang towards a village in Bironkhal when the bus met with an accident near Simri Mor. The accident happened around 7.30 pm. Rescue operation has been started with the help of…

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Lalita Devi and Her Parrot

Lalita Devi's Parrot: 

The Beginnings of the Art

The painter Lalita Devi in Simri village, Madhubani area,  Jan 2012.

Rambharos took me to see Lalita Devi, an older painter who had flourished in the 80's and whom he much admired. He remembered her as a very experimental, innovative and lively artist.  Today however she was quiet and subdued.  I wanted to meet her to ask about a feminist painting she did many years ago showing the many armed goddess Durga with a broom and pots and pans in her hands rather than weapons.    "A man told me this was not Durga", she said.  "I told him that he keeps looking for Durga in the sky but does not see the hundreds of Durgas around him".

As we continued to talk about her earlier work she became energized and brought out a few of her recent paintings.

Below is 'Krishna breaking the gopi's milk pots', painted in soft tones using natural colors.  Although Krishna teasing the milkmaids is a standard theme in Mithila painting, Lalita Devi gives it a feminist turn by making the milkmaid a much more active player than usual in the scene.  Her hold on Krishna's ankles is as much a restraining movement as a pleading one.  

     When we were getting ready to leave I asked if I could take a portrait of her next to a wall drawing of a parrot.

Lalita immediately said that would not do.  She asked me to wait a moment, returning in a few minutes with several green leaves in her hand.  She had drawn the parrot a few months earlier with leaves like these and would refresh it now.  The leaves are from the Sim plant which artists used for the color green before they had store bought paints.  Crushing the leaves between thumb and forefinger she began carefully but quickly to paint over the lines of the faded parrot. 

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She adds the finishing touch to her parrot drawn with the crushed Sim leaves.  

Lalita Devi may not paint very much any more, but this act of painting was a wonderous thing to see.  Rambharos and I both watched with a sense of history and a sense of participating in a timeless ritual.  Mural painting is the origin of the Mithila painting we now have on paper.  And here we had just witnessed the beginning of mural painting. 

I had wanted a portrait of Lalita Devi.  What better portrait could I have of her than this!

Peter Zirnis   Jersey City, March 2012. 

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25 killed as bus carrying marriage party falls into gorge in Pauri Garhwal

At least 25 people were killed and 20 others injured when a bus carrying 45–50 members of a marriage party fell into a gorge in Uttarakhand’s Pauri Garhwal district, police said on Wednesday. The bus was on its way to Kanda village in Bironkhal from Laldhang town in Haridwar when it fell into a 500-metre gorge near Simri bend at around 7 pm on Tuesday, they said. Rescue operations were carried out throughout the night, police said. Eighteen bodies have been retrieved so far while seven-eight bodies could still be trapped inside the bus, they added. Twenty people injured in the accident were pulled out of the mangled remains of the bus and rushed to hospitals in Bironkhal, Rikhnikhal and Kotdwar, police said. They said two of the injured died on the way to hospital. A rescue operation was launched soon after the incident on Tuesday evening. However, efforts of the rescuers were hampered by darkness. Villagers then used flashlights on their mobile phones to rescue those stuck inside the bus as there was no arrangement of lights at the site of the accident, eyewitnesses said on Tuesday. Later, officials rushed to the site and ambulances, lighting and life-saving equipment were arranged. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, who along with former Union minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank on Tuesday arrived for an on-the-spot assessment of the situation, met the people hospitalised in Kotdwar. Dhami announced financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh each for the next of kin of the deceased and Rs 50,000 for the injured. He hoped that all bodies will be recovered by evening. (PTI) Dhami had visited the Disaster Management Authority office in Dehradun on Tuesday night to assess the situation after the bus accident.

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