you have witnessed a great cyclone on eastern coast of india write a diary
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was nearly blown away'
Amitabha Bhattasali, BBC Bengali, Kolkata
Kolkata has been facing the full force of Cyclone Amphan since it made landfall several hours ago.
My building has lost electricity. The telephone network is gone so I'm here with a candle. The mobile network is running. But the situation just outside my window is terrifying - I went outside to try to record something and was nearly blown away.
I'm getting reports from across the city as well as from coastal districts that the situation is pretty bad there. Thousands of trees and electricity poles are down.
When the last super cyclone struck in 1999 I was travelling on a train and was stuck for two days. At one point, I thought we'd be blown away.
How much devastation this cyclone has caused we'll get to know only in the morning.Kolkata residents said it was the worst storm they had experienced in decades. They spoke of flooded homes, electricity transformers exploding and power cuts. One man told the BBC the boundary walls of his condominium had collapsed.
"I am in my house. I have been prepared for a while. But I've never seen a storm as bad as this," said one resident, Pooja Kaur. "There is no power at the moment."
Earlier, a Bangladesh Red Crescent volunteer helping villagers to evacuate became the first fatality after the boat he was in capsized in strong winds, the organisation said.Bangladesh has reported four other deaths. In India, media reported 10 fatalities, including a child in the state of Orissa (also known as Odisha), who was killed after the mud wall of his family's home collapsed.
In the Sundarbans, also a rich habitat for Bengal tigers, houses "look like they have been run over by a bulldozer", a villager called Babul Mondal told the FP news agency.