Lucky you...from the piece, it's obvious that the tsunami only devastated Thailand, Malaysia, Indionesia etc, and totally missed the Indian sub-continent, no?
Unless they're too ashamed to show the total absence of any rehab work undertaken in this backward land run by ueseless, uncaring and indifferent netas and babus???
We, now consisting of about 20 Rly men started to distribute water, biscuits, fruits and food pockets tot the available persons.We started walkingwith head loads. We saw a few heartless persons looting from the dead bodies, when questioned, they pretended that they are trying to identify their kith and kin! When our relief material got exhausted, we approached a lady unning a petyy shop near Velipalayam and requested her to give whatever she was having in her shop for money. A gretat reply from the GREAT Lady. "I do not want any money for these small items(like murukku(dhanthkali), groundnut cake etc. You please distribute them on my behalf. What a great soul!" too much for these columns! Many more on secularism, polpular demands, This culture only will keep India United for thousands of yearrs.
First of all I shall give a brief acount on the happenings and then he services rendered by us, on behalf of Indian ralways myself as the leader of the team. On the fateful day I had been on a routine Inspection in the Nagore, Nagapatnam area as a Rly Officer. I visited the Vailanganni Church by around midnight and prayed for Our Lady Goos Health along with my asst Shr Managalasamy. When I was meditating I heard a voice in my inner mind. I shall save you, you will become very popular soon. Just after that we left on out night Inspection and returned our brief sleep at Nagore by around 4 AM. After a brief nap, started back to Nagapatnam by road by 8:45.AM. When reached Nagapatnam Museum I thought of visiting the re. Ssomehow we had a second thought, then drove a few mwters towaards the turning , A lot of fishermen ran from the shore as fast as there legs could carry them. When we asked them what was wrong, they shouted at us to escape telling us that the sea was "boiling" Saw the unforgettable scene there! a few fishing boats were riding on the high tides just about 30 meters away from us at a height of about 10 meters. Accellerated our car and esaped to safety. Just saved by a few seconds and a few meters! Within an hour wI was asked to be the Emergency Officer and returned from Thiruvarur with a relief train. We saw maunds of dead bodies through out! alas. This will continue in my next post.Thanks for the
rediff - you have already given similar article for japan, could you also give us similar article of india. how are we fairing after the tsunami that hit us after a decade ......
