Ever since hurricane Katrina, it has been an open secret: the old, the poor and immigrants suffer most when natural disasters hit the US.

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Gujarat is paying a heavy price for a calamity that is by far the biggest government made disaster since Independence. As the state crawls out from a landscape of debris, it appears as the most imposing symbol of a system that is in comatose, though not d

D eath and earthquakes do not come by appointment. However, an earth

A deadly nexus between government officials and builders reduce most of Gujarat s homes to rubbles