Time:
Fag end of December 2004, in the aftermath of the Tsunami.
Place: Visakhapatnam .
Padma
flipped through the newspaper, her first activity of the day; it was full of
reports and photographs detailing the death and devastation caused by the
recent Tsunami. Sensitive as she was, tears filled her eyes but she did not
give up reading. One of the pictures showed the devastation caused by the
disaster in Kanya Kumari. She did not go further than that. She took a closer
look at the photographs- the broken country boats on the sea shore rang a bell
in her heart.