Chennai, Dec. 26 -- For all the tragic reasons, this day--December 26--will remain etched in the minds and hearts of the peopleliving in coastal hamlets not only in Tamil Nadu, but also in countries like Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
It was on this day on a peaceful Sunday morning, the mother nature struck it in all its fury, snuffing out thousands of lives, in theform of deadly tidal waves triggered by an under sea earthquake which was later named as tsunami.
Twentyone years on, more than 8,000 people who had lost their lives, including in the worst affected coastal Nagapattinam district, Cuddalore, Kanniyakumari and Chennai, people still are in a state of mourning unable to come to terms with the deadly disaster, thattook the lives of their ...