Remembering Tsunami 2004: Still a hard life for many survivors

Grief-stricken: This picture of M. Indira mourning her sister-in-law on a Cuddalore beach in India was published around the world and won Reuters photographer Arko Datta the 2004 World Press Photo award. (Inset) Indira today; despite the smile, and the accidental fame, she is in poor health and now lives hand to mouth. — The Straits Times, Singapore

India’s fishing villages continue to pick up the pieces.

RAGGED with exhaustion and grief, M. Indira was unaware that someone was taking a picture of her sprawled helplessly on the beach next to the body of her sister-in-law Maheswari 10 years ago. For three days she had stumbled through the rubble left by the tsunami that hit the Tamil Nadu coast on a clear morning after Christmas in December 2004.