Ahmedabad, Jan. 26 -- Four-year-old Mitul Mehta picked up a small Indian flag and ran out of his house towards the Republic Day rally. His elder brother Rohit, then nine, was marching with his school, and Mitul wanted to be close enough to walk along, waving his flag. It was January 26, 2001. The family had celebrated Mitul's fourth birthday a day earlier. At 8.46 am, as the rally passed through a narrow lane lined with old shops and houses, a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 struck Kutch. Buildings collapsed within seconds. Lives ended where they stood. "My husband had gone to the Jain temple in Ganga Bazaar. That temple collapsed, but they managed to escape. Around 8.50 am, people started shouting that there had been a massive earthqu...