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Driving into Kutch, I'm unnerved by the devastation on both sides of the highway: the TV images and newspaper pictures didn't prepare me for this mutilated landscape. The epicenter of the earthquake lies in Gujarat's western-most region, where the cotton fields of Saurashtra give way to the dusty plains of the rann, an 18,000-sq-km expanse that once was a marshland on the shores of the Arabian Sea but is now practically desert. The sparse vegetation is more brown than green. This inhospitable terrain is home to the Kutchi people, former nomads renowned...
...that anybody in Kutch is likely to forget. Everyone I meet has a horrible tale. The vice-principal of a school in Gandhidham town saw a brick wall fall on her students. She wonders if she can ever return to teaching. A construction worker in Bhuj spent half a day shouting out encouragement to a woman trapped in the debris as others tried, in vain, to reach her; her last words to him were: "Be good to your family." Another man dragged two of his children out of their home and had just returned for the third when the roof...
...donations raised this week will be sent to Kutch Navnirman Abhiyan, a consortium of 14 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that was founded in May 1998 in response to a devastating cyclone that hit Kutch, Gujarat...
...were thinking of giving it to large, international relief groups such as the Red Cross or Direct Relief International, but ultimately decided to donate to a domestic NGO that had been present in Kutch since the earthquake happened and that would be better in touch with what was most needed in the area," Patni said...
...this picture, of course, and relaxation is mostly a rumor. Holidays usually have some sort of affiliated work benefits--"Sand," says his colleague Komuro, "can turn into an accessory"--and he likes challenges in his recreation as well as his vocation. On a trip last year to the Kutch desert in the Indian state of Gujarat, his car broke down in the middle of a bridge spanning a salt sea. While friends fought off fantasies of sunstroke, dehydration and death in the wilderness, Miyake gazed at the weird water patterns below him, exclaiming, "This is really special." The travelers were...