Sharon Dhinakaran

My gutt is sinking as I hear and read the news about the rains in Chennai. It's the land where I was raised. The land where I had my first friends and still have close family bonds. To see and hear that the same land is covered by 8ft of water is breaking my heart. People's houses being washed away, people infected and diseased, children lost and people dying-not news that I thought I would hear, all in a week.  I've been waking up at 1am and 5am to check the news, Facebook and twitter, to see if people are being rescued from these flood zones and keep a tab on what the situation is in Chennai. I'm just not able to go back to proper sleep as my spirit is so disturbed and the panic of all these people rings loud in my ear. How can I sleep in peace when I know my people are in distress?  I see organizations coming to offer help, doctors treating people with immediate care but how much can they do when their own communities are sinking. The families of the people who he...