Big Brother With a Heart

The death toll is expected to touch 10,000, according to official forecasts. There is an acute shortage of food, water, electricity and medicines, as fear of another quake has kept tens of thousands of people out in the open. The US lauded India’s role in Nepal, saying the country ‘has demonstrated its global leadership in recent weeks, first in Yemen and now in Nepal’. The US Ambassador to India Richard Verma said, “We are grateful; we are impressed; we are inspired.”