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I must enjoin you to read (if you do not already know) this gripping & moving report by Amitav Ghosh on the aftermath of the tsunami in the Andaman & Nicobar islands: it's not just an amassment of depressing facts but a journey into the immensity of loss; it finishes by implicitly asking questions about the nature of attachment, memory & identity. And the suffering survivors were mostly eager for their names &/or plights to be recorded - restitution of a shadow of that dignity, perhaps, that destitution had deprived them of: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/nic/0037/index.htm - read in sequence "No aid needed" "Overlapping faults" & "The town by the sea" (I first read it in German in 1 piece but here it is in 3 parts) mj