No electricity, mobiles down, Kolkata residents talk of ‘petrifying’ cyclone Amphan

Narendra Singh considers himself a lucky man. After waiting for close to two months in Kolkata, the 35-year-old migrant from Bihar had finally run out of patience. He had decided to start the long walk back home. “I run a pan shack in Bangur Avenue (east Kolkata). I ran out of stock a month ago. I don’t have a pass to go to wholesalers to get more stock. I want to go back home because my family is there, we have some land there. At least we will not go hungry,” says Narendra, who sought refuge at the ground floor of a house in the area. However, on Monday, Narendra decided to change his plans, “I decided to stay back because of the cyclone. It was probably the wisest decision of my life.”