The Inconvenient Truth
The Inconvenient Truth Life under island conditions had been peaceful and content until the epic disaster christened the “Great Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake” rattled our islands on the 26 th day of December 2004 at 6.29am IST ; triggering a massive tsunami that washed away anything to everything coming its way. The multiple-disaster caught the islanders unawares, mostly in their sleep following the Merry Christmas celebrations. Before the “boxing day” nobody had the slightest idea that the sea, amid which they had been leading their life, could threaten their very existence. The disaster turned out to be a learning experience for majority of islanders who got to know the word tsunami , though sounds Indian to our ears, is in-fact a word of Japanese origin; meaning giant harbor waves generated by undersea tectonic or volcanic activity. The 2004 slow slip undersea earthquake incidentally shif...