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Disaster! Pretending Away the Inevitable

Editor: Dixit, K.M., Ali, M., Pudasaini, S, and Zia, U(web).

Publisher: The Southasia Trust

Place of Publish: Nepal Lalitpur

Year: 2011

Page Numbers: 86

Series: Volume 24, No.3, March 2011

Acc. No: 393-J

Category: Journals

Subjects: Adult Education

Languages: English

The cover story in this edition is “For a Little bit of Love”. It speaks of the Survivors of the tsunami. The Author Timothy Senaviratne recounts his traumatic experience in surviving the tsunami that hit Sri Lanka on the 26th of December 2004. Year after year, humanity is stricken by a natural disasters and yet continues to live ignorant how to deal with them. With regard to minimising the loss and misery that disasters bring in their wake, this issue looks at what we in South Asia know we can change and what we cannot. Other articles in this issue are: “Hasina vs. Yunus”; Mourning the BBC Cuts” and “Writing in Tongues”.