In pictures: Madras survivors
V Govindan, 55, fish seller

My house was blown nearly half a kilometre inland when the waves came. I started running with my wife and four children. I returned to the coast in the evening and saw that my home had been washed away. The signboard is still there - my business was named after my daughter Sandhya. The board says: "Live prawns bought here". Now life is so uncertain.

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