Some Facts about Tsunami

Abstract

The December 26, 2014 edition of a well-circulated English news daily of Kolkata printed a photo on its front page that shows a small hand laying a half-bloomed white rose on a seabeach of Thailand to commemorate the said day of 2004, which witnessed a historic natural disaster of unimaginable scale in some parts of the globe. A decade ago on this day the severest tsunami ravaged the coastline of some countries by the side of Indian Ocean. These countries are Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India. The people of these countries who lost their near and dear ones remembered them with bleeding hearts and till date they reminisce it with unbearable pain. This reminiscence is not only confined within their families and neighbours but also transmitted to the whole world through printed media and audiovisual way. Though a decade has passed by, yet the tsunami rampage of 2004 still seems to be a contemporary event and the young generation of today should know what happened in the morning hours of December 26, 2004. It is with this intention the present article is composed.