editor George Weber

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Table of Contents   JUNE 2005 2 June 2005 - Barren volcano active again - Damage done to North Serntinel island by the earthquake and tsunami    MAY 2005 18 May 2005 - Expedition to study tsunami 10 May 2005 - Tsunami study shows decline in marine catches 3 May 2005 (Day 129) - The 2-Rupee-payout rumour explained - Administration lauds its efforts at reconstruction    APRIL 2005 27 Apr 2005 (Day 123) - Underwater volcanic activity off Nicobar islands 17 Apr 2005 (Day 113) - Cause for worry: several new aftershocks and increasing volcanic activity in Indonesia - The lost world of the Nicobarese, by Denis Giles 14 Apr 2005 (Day 110) - Are the Volcanoes waking up? the World Disaster Alliance warns 10 Apr 2005 (Day 106) - Quakes heading South: a second major aftershock 3 Apr 2005 (Day 99) - Port Blair rocks again - to Shaan's tunes - Encroachers in Andaman forests - parliamentary question and answer    MARCH 2005 28 Mar 2005 (Day 93) - Major new earthquake (aftershock) 8.22 to 8.9 on Richter scale, off souhwest Sumatra 24 Mar 2005 (Day 89) - Backpacker Army rebuild's Thailand's 'Beach' 23 Mar 2005 (Day 88) - Andamans ready for tourism 19 Mar 2005 (Day 84) - Asia primed for next big quake 9 Mar 2005 (Day 74) - Plea for local community radio 6 Mar 2005 (Day 71) - Coastal regulation zone clause - a hurdle 5 Mar 2005 (Day 70) - Extinction threat for Andaman natives - and a new government policy 4 March 2005 (Day 69) - Reflections from a post-Tsunami Nicobars, by Dr. Simron Jit Singh (required reading for all NGOs and governments involved in the Tsunami aid effort: how not to do it) with map 3 March 2005 (Day 68) - Coastal and marine biodiversity of Great Nicobar Island 2 Mar 2005(Day 67) - Centre dreams of Andamans as an ideal township 1 Mar 2005 (Day 66) - Nicobars: Tribe refuses to be silenced after tsunami - Andamans: the overloaded archipelago, by Mrajshekhar   FEBRUARY 2005 27 Feb 2005 (Day 64) - Tsunami spells hope for India's hunter-gatherers 24 Feb 2005 (Day 61) - Arrests for stealing from native tribes 23 Feb 2005 (Day 60) - Legal action against TV journalists 21 Feb 2005 (day 58) - Jarawas after the tsunami (photographs) - Lt.-Governor visits Car Nicobar to inspect reconstruction works - Indira Gandhi statue at Great Nicobar found again 20 Feb 2005 (Day 57) -Amphibian assault vessels used for relief operations 17 Feb 2005 (Day 54) - Indian Chief Geologist Rubbishes findings of US geologists 15 Feb 2005 (Day 52) - Post-tsunami trauma for the inhabitants of Chowra and Bompoka 11 Feb 2005 (Day 48) - Great Nicobar woman rescued after 45 days 9 Feb 2005 (Day 46) - Visit to and report on Teressa island, Nicobars, highlights shortcomings of governmental aid 8 Feb 2005 (Day 45) - Requirements for temporary rehabilitation in the Nancowry group of islands 3 Feb 2005 (Day 40) - Swept into the world 1 Feb 2005 (Day 38) - Report on the Nicobars by Madhusree Mukherjee   JANUARY 2005 30 Jan 2005 (Day 36) - A Queen is forced to leave  28 Jan 2005 (Day 34) - Mild quakes continue to rock Andaman and Nicobar islands 26 Jan 2005 (Day 32) - A deadly bureaucracy in the Andamans - Andaman Trust founded 25 Jan 2005 (Day 31) - Efforts to revive tourism in the Andamans 24 Jan 2005 (Day 30) - Turtles nesting again in southern Nicobars 23 Jan 2005 (Day 29) - Good news: the Port Blair government begins to listen - Relief blocked by Port Blair government - NGOs claim - Communications restored 22 Jan 2005 (Day 28) - Lt.Governor of the A&N Islands visits Little Andaman 19 Jan 2005 (Day 25) - Islands denied relief by Port Blair bureaucracy 18 Jan 2005 (Day 24) - New commander-in-chief of armed forces in the Andaman and Nicobar islands - Tsunami affects turtle conservation programs throughout Indian Ocean 17 Jan 2005 (Day 23) - Second Open Letter to the President of India - Special relief loan scheme by State Bank of India for tsunami-affected people - Kerala doctors stranded in Port Blair - they do not get permission to help 16 Jan 2005 (Day 22) - Sea water ingression has caused extensive damage to islands' best cultivable land 13 Jan 2005 (Day 19) - AMITAV GOSH, famous writer, visits islands and puts down his thoughts (3) - Situation report on the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Tribal Land in the Central Nicobars 12 Jan 2005 (Day 18) - AMITAV GOSH, famous writer, visits islands and puts down his thoughts (2) - Global warming and rising sea levels will affect the Nicobar islands 11 Jan 2005 (Day 17) - AMITAV GOSH, famous writer, visits islands and puts down his thoughts (1) - Mini-tsunami following after-shock - Considering the silver lining of future tourism - The Port Blair administration plans reconstruction strategy - Member of Parliament makes urgent suggestions to Prime Minister - Relief and rescue operations conducted by the Integrated Relief Command continues 10 Jan 2005 (Day 16) - Letter to Lt-Governor on Media intrusions into tribal reserves, by Samir Acharya of SANE - The work of the Crocodile Trust explained - The relief effort continues 9 Jan 2005 (Day 15) - Let Nature's defences be! - The Andamanese Negrito: an ancient link to Africa lives on in the Bay of Bengal, by Nicholas Wade - Bakhtawar Singh dead - How the Great Andamanese save themselves from extinction - Moken fund to help the sea gypsies 8 Jan 2005 (Day 14) - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits Port Blair - Tsunami calamity relief assistance announced by Prime Minister - Car Nicobar island said to return to normalcy 7 Jan 2005 (Day 13) - First contact with Jarawa since disaster - The Indian Red Cross has started work - Sources of general information - Andaman tribes have lessons to teach - How the official mind works - a revealing letter 6 Jan 2005 (Day 12) - Rescue and relief operations continue (A&N administration press release) - First named hero of the tsunami disaster - Military beginning to get help to people 5 Jan 2005 (Day 11) - SupremeCourt order concerning the felling of trees following the tsunami disaster - Supreme Court allows timber felling to help tsunami victims - Situation in (mostly) the Nicobar islands - Great Andamanese remnant tribe moved to Port Blair - Nicobarese tribal leaders' report - The first relief ship to Nancowry (Nicobars) and detailed situation report, by Denis Giles - Suggested essential measures - North Sentinel island coral reef now exposed in geological uplift - First confirmed news on isolated tribes of the Andaman and Nicobar islands - Whale/dolphin suicides and earthquakes - Earthquake aftershock with magnitude 5.8 hit near Andaman Islands - Help the Moken, sea gypsies of the Burmese-Thai coast 4 Jan 2005 (Day 10) - Letter from the Nicobarese to the Lt.Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands - Birth of Onge child increases Onge population to 97 - Bumps on road to reconstruction - Reading the winds and waves helps the islanders survive ther tsunami 3 Jan 2005 (Day 9) - Port Blair bureaucrats can't communicate and can't decide - India not totally opposed to aid through NGOs after all - Mud volcano on North Sentinel island - First Open Letter to the President of India - Desperate situation in the Nicobar islands 2 Jan 2005 (Day 8) - Demand for new access policy - Indian Ocean island pleads for attention, relief 1 Jan 2005 (Day 7) - Onge saved - Aid requirements - Reluctance to admit need for help - Establishing communications links again - India bars aid agencies from joining relief effort - Aid sent to the islands - Starvation feared in Indian archipelago - Car Nicobar's famous church flattened - 200 bodies wash up on Port Blair beach - Survivors face crocodiles - Andamans missing "presumed dead" - Islands' death toll could reach 15,000 - Quake survivors fend off starvation, crocs DECEMBER 2004 31 Dec 2004 (Day 6) - Relief not reaching needy - Jungle-dwellers helped injured survive - Status report on Little Andaman - Need assessment and field report - The Indian Navy sends relief for tsunami-struck Andaman and Nicobar islands 30 Dec 2004 (Day 5) - The situation in the Nicobars - Stench leads rescuers to bodies - Too close to have any chance at all - The Sentineli on North Sentinel island and the Jarawa have survived (with photograph) - Barren island volcano erupts near the Andamans after quake - Stench of Death Hangs over the Andamans 29 Dec 2004 (Day 4) - Fate of Andaman and Nicobar tribal populations ("Times of India")  26-31 Dec 2004 (Days 1-6) - Report from some Nicobarese at Port Blair on the situation in Car Nicobar

 

 

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