Radio Kosi

Radio Kosi was started by two lovers to chat with each other, but it became the voice of three hundred and fifty villages and millions of people. Prahlad was its inventor and engineer, and his girlfriend, Deepa, was the radio jockey. Sweeping her courtyard early in the morning with headphones on, she would begin connecting the people of their villages, immersed in darkness. Those still trapped between the Kosi embankments, lacking any of the amenities enjoyed by citizens of independent India: no hospitals, no roads, no schools, no electricity; still living in a time of centuries pastfacing the brunt of floods directly, struggling to survive. A twist in the story also suggests that while the nations machinery may not reach out to understand their pain, it certainly does, seeking votes and oppressing them in the name of law. The Kosi River, which carries a large amount of silt, changes its course the following year due to this silt, leaving many villages once again vulnerable. A few years after independence, a plan was made to confine the river between two embankments, but the villages located between those embankments were left to remain. The rehabilitation efforts proved to be a fraud. This novel draws our attention to this story, which many people still dont know about.