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Picking Up the Pieces: One Year After the Tsunami |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / FEATURE |
| Author: Mridu Khullar |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,981 Words, 12,032 Characters |
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Tens of thousands of lives lost. Many millions more rendered homeless. Thousands of families cramped into temporary shelters that were built to house survivors for a brief period. While the state and central governments may have declared the relief phase over, and the state machinery has entered into the rehabilitation mode of operation, people continue to live like refugees. In most places, the land for construction of permanent houses for survivors of the South Asian tsunami has yet to be identified, and there is little hope in the eyes of people who have lost homes, families, and livelihoods that they will be able to call anything but these windowless blocks of land home again.
This is India, one year later.
After a span of one year, it was expected that there would be quick distribution of compensation and relief, completion of permanent housing structures,and people reaching closure. Instead, the landscape is covered with debris-filled, desolate beaches, halves of boats buried in the sand, and people who are desperately clinging to the hope that help will come, sooner rather than later.
Beach after beach, village after village, shelter after shelter looks haunted, as i...
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...omen giggling over a private joke. ... They may have lost homes and loved ones a year ago in the devastating tsunami, but these people continue to show courage and resilience by moving forward. The survivors of this tragedy have discovered moments of happiness amid all their sorrow and have learned to treasure what little joy they can get. And one year later, that's really what it's all about.
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