26 Dec The Indian Ocean Tsunami: Ten Years On

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami. Many of us will never forget that day when an undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia sent a wall of water surging across the Indian Ocean. When the water hit land, thousands of people were killed and vast damage was caused to buildings, roads and farmland. The human cost was massive – and people died in Penang and nearby areas. Since then, there have been reports, films, poems, novels, exhibitions and scholarly books dealing with the disaster and its aftermath.

Here is a link to the very full reports in today’s edition of The Guardian. And even more poignantly here is a fine essay, The Town By The Sea, written by the novelist Amitav Ghosh just a few months after the catastrophe. It is a time for remembrance.

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