Dear Readers,
Last night I chanced upon a rare video series capturing the plight and pathos of the catastrophic Tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean in 2004. The video is called 'Tsunami in Camera' and is available on Youtube. It was horrifying to relate to the experiences of tourists who were on a delightful vacation and were caught unawares. The scenes that reeled before my eyes were so terrifying that I imagined finding myself in a similar situation when I was holidaying in Thailand or Philippines.
After watching the video, my estimation of the effects of that disaster was completely dismantled. It shattered many myths and presuppositions. Before this, little did I have any idea about the fact that the actual havoc was played by the power and force of tidal energy. Secondly, I got to learn that at each site of the tragedy, two waves hit the beaches. The second wave was taller and mightier. Secondly, the receding wave had an equally devastating effect. It suck people and objects like vacuum cleaner into the abyss of the ocean.
These days, I am spending a lot of time with my college senior Bhuvneshwar Singh Rathore(Bhamsa as we used to call him) who hails from Bikaner, is in the army, and is here on a leave. We discussed the above point today in the evening and he supplied his peculiar experience details. This army officer had successfully served at the world's highest battlefield, the Siachen glacier. He narrated an eye-witness account of one of the most deadly of natural disasters- the Avalanche. The sight of an avalanche is one of the beateous visions one can have when he is perched high above safely at a distance. However, god save you if you are in its way. Nothing, absolutely nothing, can survive it. More on it in the next post but to conclude, all that can be said is that our life is at the mercy of nature.
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