If this suffering makes you feel sick...
It may sound sick, but for the survivors of the supercyclone that lashed Orissa on October 29, it was perhaps easier to have perished. Or maybe not, because the dead are not going away. They are present in the stench of rotting corpses and carcasses, which bears the ominous portents of epidemics. For thousands of people, life is simply a prolonging of the agony that stormed into their lives on the cataclysmic winds.
The agony has been compounded by the fact that those who claim to govern, who get paid for studying the weather and issuing forewarnings of approaching disasters, failed. But, perhaps, there is an excuse or two for the administration in the fact that the intensity of the cyclone was unimaginable. But the people cannot make excuses because it does not help them survive. And, they have been reduced to the status of