2. Photo extracted from http://newspaper.li/bahrain
3. “It’s all desert; you can see the ocean for 360 degrees in the round”. Photograph property of Navin Chandra Acharia.
“I have never seen a tree in thirteen years”, says Navin Chandra Acharia who worked in a hotel in Bahrain and is now back in Partapur. Only fifteen Partapur islanders live in Bahrain, one of them is Suria’s husband whom Navin invited to this other island. He is still there. This is a shiny tree Navin brought back as a souvenir. He will soon leave for Kuwait, another desert where a larger number of Partapur islanders temporarily live.