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Post-tsunami thoughts 4: Lessons from a disaster 10 Jan 2005 | 09:15 pm
The hardest part about any tragedy is that it need not have been so bad. Sure, the earthquake in the Indian Ocean was one of the worst ever, and the tsunami was devastatingly powerful – still, thousan...
Post-tsunami thoughts 3: Selective compassion 10 Jan 2005 | 04:41 am
The column inches have come down, the news channels are no longer full of it, and less and less people are coming forward to volunteer for relief organisations: the tsunami is being forgotten by most ...
Post-tsunami thoughts 2: To hell with intent 10 Jan 2005 | 04:16 am
Too many of us are obsessed with intent. NDTV 24x7 are having a debate, as I type this, on “We The People”, where a few people have protested the publicity that celebrities have got for donating or he...
Post-tsunami thoughts 1: Fighting poverty 8 Jan 2005 | 08:38 pm
Disaster shows discretion – it is always the poor who get the worst of it. All through Tamil Nadu we have seen that it is the poor who have suffered most, a fact that has been so commented upon and so...
Despatches 46: The Urban Mint 8 Jan 2005 | 08:31 pm
I am back in Chennai, and will be heading back to Mumbai soon, after a week that has been both physically and emotionally exhausting. I have never felt the kind of fatigue as I have felt in the last t...
Despatches 45: The doctor in the atomic city 8 Jan 2005 | 07:22 pm
Much of what we see and do in Kalpakkam reassures us that, contrary to my earlier speculation, nothing has gone wrong here. But we have more reason to feel lucky than to feel complacent. Having an ato...
Despatches 44: The makers of boats 8 Jan 2005 | 07:17 pm
It feels like a surreal dreamscape that we are walking through. When I was a kid I would sometimes look at clouds and try to find shapes in them, and I do that here with wood. Everywhere around me the...
Despatches 43: Love story by the river 7 Jan 2005 | 07:12 pm
On the road to Semmamguppam, in Cuddalore district, we stop at one place and walk towards the river Uppanar. There is no village here, but we can see two thatched huts besides the river a couple of hu...
Despatches 42: Catching rats again? 6 Jan 2005 | 09:06 am
The Irulas are a South Indian tribe who were once famous for being rat-catchers. In Cuddalore district, though, they catch fish. Their story is one of the saddest ones I have come across. The Irulas ...
Despatches 41: Standing at the seashore 6 Jan 2005 | 08:36 am
At Neimelikuppam we get into a conversation with Katyavarayan, who tells us: "I have been a fisherman for 35 years. But now, after this has happened, I can't fish. When I go to the sea and stand in f...
