We woke up at 3.00am in the wee-hours of the morning to the sound of a telephone ring. It was our neighbours Sudheendra and Padmini informing us about the quake. On an impulse, Sneha instructed me to pick-up our emergency sling bag and add passports in it. I did that while she picked-up the younger one and gave her to me, and she carried my older kid. We came out into the living room with the sling bag on my shoulder and kids in our arms. We then put the TV on just to know what was happening. BBC was reporting that an earthquake had occurred some three hours ago. That news slowed our pace and nerves. It was not before another hour that we took the kids back to bed. I looked-up some news on the internet and the first website I checked was Tsunamihelp. It has become that reliable.

While I checked the rest of the news, Sneha suddenly observed: “the last one was a day after Christmas and now this one a day after easter”.

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