No one had a tongue to speak
Subtitle: the untold story of one of history's deadliest floods
By: by Utpal Sandesara and Tom Wooten
Contributors: Wooten, Tom, 1986-
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9781616144319
Subjects: Disaster victims; Dam failures; Floods; Interviews; Flood damage; Disaster relief
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword by Dr. Paul Farmer; title: Prologue : "A Vaniyan of Morbi goes to the Machhu's waters"; title: On the banks of the Machhu River; title: "The government decides, and the government builds"; title: "This monsoon descends"; title: "Something out of the ordinary"; title: "Not a single brick will survive"; title: "Even the pests were dead"; title: "They would work and cry, cry and work"; title: "Everyone was a beggar"; title: "But courage and strength remain"; title: "Justice was not done"; title: Epilogue : "Can any page of history be forgotten?"