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City of Bandits (by Erika Bildsten)

Sorry for the recent lack of blog posts -- it's certainly not for a lack of stories! I'll try to catch up on the many happenings over the next few days and weeks.

In the last few days, swine flue (H1N1) has hit India, and in particular, Pune, quite hard. The city of Pune (where I live) has logged about half of the cases in the entire country, and today suffered three casualties, bringing the city-wide total to 14. About 300 city residents have contracted the disease so far.


In response, the city has in many ways shut down. All colleges and universities are closed for a week, as are every theater and shopping center. Throughout the city, there are now eerily dark and uninhabited large buildings and stores.

Some level of fear has also certainly swept the population. Nearly everyone now wears face masks when they go out, or at least wrap their scarves or saris over their nose and mouths. From the young boy at the grocery store with his bandana slipping down from the crest of his nose, to the woman on the back of a motorcycle with her scarf wrapped multiple times around her mouth, everyone has joined masked crowd.


Now, as we go out, instead of people soliciting wooden tiki vases and toys, they sell face masks, and Indian flags, as August 15th is Indian Independence Day.



Hopefully the disease will soon pass, and the population of 3 million will be able to go back to their day-to-day lives without living in constant fear of contracting swine flu.

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