Sensitive reportage

India-uncut is one of those rare websites that I have found that stands head and shoulders above the rest in reporting on the tsunami in a sensitive and empathetic way. Yes, it's all words no less.

I have been one of those, like many others, who has been caught up in the urge to do something ...anything...to "help". One week later, the momentum of doing "my part" -- in having expended resources [time,energy,money] to justify the feeling of being "involved"; by being on top of the minute-by-minute unfolding news about this catastrophe; in cringing at the images of devastation and deprivation; in passing judgements on the politics and progress of the "relief" and "development" activity; in tirelessly preaching about the need for involvement to my family and friends with a preposterously inflated tone of righteousness -- has all begun to teeter towards taking on an aura of absurdity. A very strange and perplexing note indeed on which to start this new year.