Gorakhpur

A potent spell to bring rain was reported as actually practised during the Gorakhpur famine of 1873-4.

I was born in the last decade of the nineteenth century, and passed my first eight years at Gorakhpur.

My elder sister Uma and I were seated in the early morning under a neem tree in our Gorakhpur compound.

I felt that I could not bear to remain longer in Gorakhpur, only to see my brother removed before my helpless gaze.

The town, a collection of villages, is on the river Kuana, 40 m. from Gorakhpur by railway.