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December 26, 2005, when the gigantic waves and typhoons caused by
tsunami mauled 11 countries bordering the Indian Ocean, a bunch of
intrepid photographers catalogued for history one of the most
fearsome natural disasters of all times. Among them was a team of
documentary makers of the National Geographic Channel capturing
stories of hope and triumph in the wake of the natural
catastrophe. Most of these were filmed in southern Sri Lanka,
which suffered the second largest number of casualties after
Indonesia. Tsunami: One Place, Many Stories on Sunday at 9
P.M. on National Geographic Channel is a moving tale of what
happened on one tiny 20 kilometre stretch of the southern
coastline of Sri Lanka from the town of Galle to the villages of
Talpe, Habaradua and on to Koggala. Viewers have a rare chance to
see what passion and action can achieve at one small area of the
vast Tsunami-hit coastal wasteland. Timeless India William Dalrymple, the author of
a number of best-selling books, is now on a new quest. In Indian
Journeys on Thursday at 10 P.M. on the History and
Entertainment Channel, Dalrymple is on yet another passage of
discovery. This episode begins thousands of miles away from India
in the Middle East from where St Thomas is said to have travelled
to India and landed in the port of Cranganore near Cochin in
Kerala. In this humid, tropical state, the church that claims to
follow Thomas’ teachings observes a mass that has been preserved
almost unchanged for two millennia, and is thought to be an
accurate reflection of the one held by Christ’s own disciples.
Dalrymple reveals the contemporary parallels to Thomas’ world.
In 2000 years little has changed in Southern India, as in the time
of Thomas, Christianity has to compete with a sea of different
faiths. In this episode the author tries to captures the
continuity of India from times immemorial. — NF
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