The relief is flowing cutting across regions, religions, castes ... one helping a fellow human ... Looks the World stands United ..
Reporting is done well in NDTV - particularly their covering Nagapatinam and Andaman ... Baraka Dutt ..
News Today interviewed a Geologist - who cautioned that without a place to remain safe, the toll should be very much alarming in Andaman - on the Black Sunday evening itself - quoting sources in Delhi ... Unfortunately he was right ...
UN reporting that the largest scale relief operation the World has ever witnessed ...
Another report that 60 yrs back it was about 125000 killed in Tsunami .. turned to be true again.. that mark is again crossed ..
Re the Will to fight and survive .. Not only Tamils .. all the other victims do have it .. Read the girl who swam across and reached India from Srilanka .. another lady who was caught by her hair on the top of a tree surviving night .. That is survivor instinct .. and a bit of Luck ...
And imagine the Fisherman - ultimately he has to go into the Sea again .. though he does not want to call it Goddess anymore !( as reported in media) .. for his Survival ..
We, living on the coasts, have seen the Death, very closely .. and surviving deaths of beloved / well-known ones ...
Philosophy takes over .. They have got down here .. We may get down in the next ...
Yet .. We look forward to peaceful times .. as the Japanese do..