Of men and cyclones: The ‘Super-cyclone’ that hit the coastal Indian State of Orissa has left in its wake untold miseries — and lessons

Salagrama, Venkatesh (1999) Of men and cyclones: The ‘Super-cyclone’ that hit the coastal Indian State of Orissa has left in its wake untold miseries — and lessons. Samudra Report (24). pp. 3-8. ISSN 0973 1121

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Abstract

The dead were the luckiest of all. This is the recurrent feeling one gets as one walks past the huddled figures of men, women and children who survived the ‘Mother of All Cyclones’, as one commentator labelled it. Most dead bodies were ‘disposed of’, yet you could sense their presence, in the constant refrain from the survivors: “Why did we survive?” They do not mourn the dead, they mourn the living.

Item Type:	Articles
Class Number:	920.SAM0304
Keywords:	Samudra Report, ICSF, India, Orissa, Natural Disasters, Cyclones, Coastal Communities, Livelihoods, Migration, Water Pollution
Subjects:	Disasters and Climate Change
Depositing User:	Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited:	12 Oct 2021 07:42
Last Modified:	30 Mar 2022 13:50
URI:	http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/919

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