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While Gayatri S. Datar ’07-’08 was in India visiting family in December 2004, the tsunami hit South Asia. It ultimately killed almost 170,000 people and left thousands more without homes. When Datar returned to Harvard shortly after, she says she no longer felt as though she belonged. So she took time off and headed back to India to aid relief efforts. For four months, she lived on the floor of a training center for a local non-profit and spent up to 16 hours a day cranking out grant proposals. Since she?...
...sound like a lot, but it's more than society can handle. In places like the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., a 1-ft. vertical rise in sea level means a 100-ft. retreat of shoreline." In low-lying countries like Bangladesh, the resulting flooding could dwarf the 2004 tsunami...
...Lankans seem to have quickly forgotten the spirit of cooperation that flickered briefly after the tsunami. Across the Indian Ocean in Aceh, the disaster persuaded guerrillas and the Indonesian government to declare a truce and work together. Sri Lanka had a similar opportunity. International donors pledged more than $7.5 billion in development and tsunami aid?that's $375 for every person on the island. But bitter squabbles over how to share the cash?last summer, nationalist Sinhalese and Buddhist monks claimed giving aid to the Tigers legitimized terrorism?only aggravated divisions. Hagrup Haukland, Norwegian chief of the Sri Lanka Monitoring...
...Tamil side has its own die-hard brigades. In a late-November speech, rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran admitted he had intended to launch a new offensive last year before the tsunami made it impractical. Prabhakaran warned Rajapakse that he would attack within three months unless the government recognized Tamil self-determination. "The Tigers didn't even allow me to breathe," Rajapakse told TIME. "They attacked within days [of the election]. They are trying to force us into...
...could have been so different. Dayan Jayatilleka, a former visiting scholar of South Asia Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C., says he was amazed in the days after the tsunami to see soldiers donate blood for Tamils. "I thought, 'My God. There is hope. Underneath all this hate and suspicion, there is a humanity to us.' It was a magical moment. Then it was gone...