Built to collapse
The death and destruction in Ahmedabad — over 400 kilometres from the epicentre of the quake — was the direct consequence of greed and callousness. The 70 odd high-rise buildings which collapsed like a house of cards killing hundreds were man-made disasters waiting to happen.



The new defeat at Vijayanagar
It was once called the ‘Royal Avenue’, running from the great Virupaksha temple complex, to the majestic Nandi at the bottom of Matanga Hill at Hampi, Karnataka. But today the royal avenue presents a sad sight to the many Western tourists who throng there.



The dance of the Shesh Nag
Six days pass. I’m sleeping under the open sky, with my wife, son and mother. Now, I look at my father’s three-storeyed building quite differently. It never looked so horrible. Yet it has not collapsed although it has been shaken to its very foundations, just like I have been.



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