| India's
Day of Sorrow
On January 26, 2001 India celebrated Republic Day. As the
colorful parades got under way the continent reverberated
to the worst earthquake in India's history, measuring 7.9.
The epicenter in the northern province of Gujarat was a scene
of devastation. The city of Bhuj
where 150,000 people lived was turned into rubble with hardly
a building left standing. Businesses were ruined, infrastructure
torn apart and basic services were rendered now non-existent.
The physical damage is apparent but the human cost is yet
to be counted with tens of thousands of people killed and
injured and whole communities wiped out. India's national
day will long be remembered as a day of sorrow.
Kasra
Naji: Mourning
the dead in Bhuj
Satinda Bindra: Eyewitness:
The land of the dead
Mark Tully: Paying
for the damage
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