By Jatindra Das BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) - As the fiercest storm to hit India this century barreled across the Bay of Bengal last week, a local mandarin frantically worked the phones from his hot and humid office, leading the charge in an operation to move nearly a million people to safety. "We were telling people: 'Look, you have to choose between death and life'," said Taradatt, who heads the Revenue and Disaster Management Department in the poverty-plagued eastern state of Odisha. ...
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