This is a hurried blog post written from Bagdogra airport, while waiting for the next leg to commence from Bagdogra to Guwahati. I just saw the most amazing and terrible sights. I saw Mt. Everest in the distance sticking out of the Himalayan mountain range and also saw the devastation left in Bihar by the flooding of the river Kosi. The landscape looked like someone ran a particularly bleak, black, green and brown impressionist painting under a water tap. Several thousand have died in the floods and 2 million people are reported to be affected.
In case you're wondering how I got to see these two things together, my Kingfisher Red flight basically flies east over UP and Bihar, pretty close to Nepal. You can see the entire Himalayan range in the distance and look at the landscape below. The contrast is pretty vivid.
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