This 'tsunami' is deadlier!

DARBHANGA: He had not heard of tsunami until it hit the country''s coastline a couple of days ago. However, he claims an invisible tsunami, albeit sluggishly, is taking its toll here itself.
"Amidst unexciting lifestyle, the entire population is moving towards a dead end," says Ankit, who came here on a week-long holiday from Lucknow to participate in a family function.He has been here after a gap of four years since his father, a government official, was transferred in 2001.
According to Ankit, a plus two student in a reputed school at Lucknow, nothing has changed here since he left the city a couple of years ago.
Perennial power crisis, mosquito menace, civic problems have only added to the unexciting lifestyles of the people. That was a teenager who has now apparently migrated to a big city.
What local people say about the year that was? Nothing eventful to remember, a majority of people declared cynically when this correspondent sought their response about the year soon to relegate into the history. Of course, they are still loaded with the nightmares of ravaging floods that inundated the twin cities of Darbhanga and Laheriasarai in the month of July.
A rickshaw-puller, Bhola Paswan, hints towards the scarcity of kerosene. He says" "Matia tel tis rupaiye litre kahan se kharidab (how can we purchase kerosene at the rate of Rs 30 per litre)?"
"Earlier, the power situation used to improve during winter. Of late, we have to cope up with severe power crisis, be it shivering winter or scorching summer," says Shishir Kumar Mishra, a school teacher.