Bhilai

"I was used to fighting with my parents. I fought to attend a college that was a little far away from home. I thought, okay, love marriage will be the next thing to fight about," Manisha, an office assistant in Bhilai, a small town in eastern India, told me.

My father grew up in Bhilai, a town in central India where the Russians were helping set up a steel plant.

It carried pictures of Soviet life, of collective farming, and Indo-Soviet collaborations on projects like the Bhilai steel plant.

The accident occurred at the Bhilai steel plant in Chhattisgarh state.

But it is Soviet-sponsored Bhilai that is getting the big play.