‘10 years of life after Tsunami: ASIAN TSUNAMI 2004’

The morning of 26th December 2014. 

A day of nightmares!  

Something very normal and worth capturing: The nature’s attendance marked the day’s starting. But, something very unusual could be seen. May be there were extraordinary effects through which waves couldn’t be seen. It was almost like living the real thing, which could have been picturised only in the movies. Yes, me and Vikram started running with the group of people. I could see a block on the street and there was no way to escape from those coming waves. Observing a strong hotel, we decided to take shelter and we also called others too. But, no one heard us and they kept running on the streets and even few of them were engulfed into those natural tides that swallowed some 25 people together. This impossible day brought back many memories, which we had years ago: THE TSUNAMI DISASTER. 

That cold rush of air, the fleeting of birds and the total inundation with water after the initial crashing wave passed through, everything had a memory, everything! We could see some parts of Goa weren’t quite the same. But, same was the screaming from people and those cries. The muddy water and the irony of those disasters was something impossibly long. I struggled to live, but my husband took me to the highest peak of that hotel’s building. But slowly, this hotel too was getting engulfed into the nature’s destruction. So, me and my husband started marching towards the hills. But as he was behind me, the huge mass of people screaming and running separated him from me and we both lost each other. Yes, I waited to catch him, but couldn’t. I tried searching for him, but couldn’t and finally I was forced to march towards a safer place. Had many worries, but my tensions were just little in front of those who lost their entire families. The very next day, when the weather was normal, I could see few bodies piled together, few stacks of coffins and those crying beloveds. But somewhere, I still had a hope of getting Vikram back. So, I decided to march ahead, but even here the surroundings had smells of decaying, rotting, bloated, water-logged flesh. 

Those few hours meant as if I lived the randomness of people screaming and losing everything they had. Then on moving further, I saw two dead bodies near a wet piece of land and my mind couldn’t control to believe that the male dead body was wearing the same  yellow shirt which Vikram was wearing. I went to open the face of that dead body and everything that I earned as a newly married couple dried up with Tsunami. Now my breath and my heart had only one word’ I lost him, I lost him. Yes, it was Vikram who was thrown with his paranormal body only for me. I cried, but there was no one to see me crying. I could have screamed, but there was no one to see me screaming.  With no motion and no senses, I carried his dead body to the refugee camp. I thought that there could be any reason of his breath. But, I failed and the doctors declared him dead! I also wanted to be swallowed by this giant water. So, I rushed towards the waves, but unfortunately a soldier rescued me and I again became alive physically with Vikram’s child. I was pregnant! Tsunami : A disaster that swallowed people, gave me a new life to live. I kissed Vikram on his forehead and carried his body in the coffin with the help of a soldier. That pain, that horror and that chaos still live with me in my present years. But surely,  I would regret that, death cheated me and left me behind with Vikram’s child… 

NOW 10 YEARS AFTER DESTRUCTION:

What will you remember of the one you love lost in Tsunami?  Many such stories and many lot lives….May be hundreds or thousands of people like us must have witnessed the Asian Tsunami 2004. The receding waters dragged so many lives together. Yes, some of them might have survived and others may have been swallowed in the seas. To stay alive even after 10 years of facing that Tsunami is exceptional. 2004’s Tsunami ate nearly 250,000 people and it left behind serious of impacted results on the people watching the things on the television screens. If we have been  moved a little watching it on the television screens, then what about those who have already faced it and lost one part of their life? May be some of them won’t love to discuss it or even recollect it. But what about them who have faced it. Yes, there are stories of hopes, stories of determination and stories of struggles. We surely won’t imagine how much interest the eye-witnesses would have paid to get back their lost ones, but with your help we would want to reflect the fact that lives can still be found in those dead islands and silent oceans. Yes, we are paying our tributes to those lost lives who have been living happily even after  the 10 years of the Indian ocean Tsunami.

PS: Our today’s post is not meant only to read or simply digest. But, to mark a tribute to those lost lives by lighting a candle at your places or seas or even near your surroundings and just pray for those lost little hearts. At whatever place you are, in whatever situation you are( in office, tuitions, home, friend’s place etc etc…) or wherever you are going just light a candle for 5 minutes @ 7 pm and pay tribute to those lost lives!