Memories of Sidr still weep in silence

“Mother, cut off my arm and save me! Take me with you!”—the desperate cry of a teenage girl named Rehana, uttered on the night of the catastrophic Cyclone Sidr, did not travel far. Her mother, Bila Begum—who was only a few meters away—did hear her daughter’s plea, but she was utterly helpless. She was holding another, younger child in her arms. The embankment had collapsed, and floodwaters were…