| Pictures worth a thousand words... |
[29 Dec 2004|05:32pm] |
These past few days the newspapers have devoted reams to the Tsunami tragedy in coastal Tamil Nadu... I have a few friends living in Chennai and Pondicherry, so I was concerned when I first read the news... But I've spoken to them and ascertained that physically at least they've been largely unaffected... Since then about 24,000 or so words have been devoted to this display of nature's fury in the various Indian newspapers... I read this statistic somewhere... But all them words have done nothing for me... Maybe I don't have it in me to be affected or concerned by a tragedy that is being measured in numbers... 45 dead or 45,000 doesn't make the slightest difference...
And then I saw this:
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