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Tsunami And The Triumph Of Hope

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Ten years after a tsunami ravaged villages like this on the Indian Ocean Coast, towns have been rebuilt, lives repaired. [Credit: endignorance.org]

Ten years after a tsuna­mi rav­aged vil­lages like this that line the Indi­an Ocean coast­line, towns have been rebuilt, lives repaired. [Cred­it: endignorance.org]

A decade has passed since a tsuna­mi dev­as­tat­ed vil­lages in 13 Asian coun­tries, which remind­ed me that some­where I have a plas­tic sand­wich bag filled with rupees.

The rupees are among the memen­toes of a woman I cher­ished.  She went to Kudanku­lam, a fish­ing vil­lage on the south­ern tip of the Indi­an sub­con­ti­nent, ten years ago to pro­vide med­ical care to the tsunami’s sur­vivors. Con­tin­ue read­ing →