True Horror:
Hell On Earth

Rescue and Relief:
Picking up the Pieces

Gujarat Government:
Is Keshubhai
Up To It

First Person Account:
Dateline Fearscape

Quake-Resistant Building: Preventing Collapse

Insurance:
Leave It To God

Economic Impact:
What Goes Down...

Looking Back:
Latur: Still Shaken

Good Samaritans:
State-of-The-Heart

Care Today:
Rebuilding Gujarat: Hope For Survivors

DEATHQUAKE; POLITICS OF PERIL

LEFT
Offering Help

Marching in aid of quake victims

Little Feat: Though ideologically and geographically far from capitalist, saffron Gujarat, India's leftist parties did come to the aid of the earthquake victims. The Left Front (LF) Government in West Bengal contributed Rs 2 crore.

Its counterpart in Kerala came up with Rs 1 crore. The CPI(M) unit in Tripura put together Rs 25,000, a small sum but not a mean one in a tiny north-eastern state of limited resources. In Kolkata, the LF also organised a homage march (above right).

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