As the World Press Photo Exhibition 2005, showcasing prize-winning entries from 2004, stops by in Mumbai, the main frame is a timely reminder: that the past never goes away. In Arko Datta’s richly honoured photograph, the focus is on a survivor of last Boxing Day’s tsunami. It shows that after the death and destruction are cllinically assessed, the grief of the relatives remains. It says what so many sermons cannot: that the task of assistance and relief must carry on even after the camera moves away. Three special photographs from the exhibition, brought to Mumbai by the The Indian Express. World Press Photo of the Year, Arko Datta, India, Reuters A woman mourns a relative killed in the tsunami, at Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu, India. On December 26 a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a series of deadly waves that traveled around the Indian Ocean, wreaking havoc in nine Asian countries, and causing fatalities as far away as Somalia and Tanzania. The quake was so strong that it altered the tilt of the planet by 2.5 centimetres. Nearly 300,000 people died or were reported missing, and millions were left destitute in the worst natural disaster in living memory. In India, the fishing communities in Tamil Nadu were among the worst hit, with homes, lives and livelihoods wiped away Yasser Arafat died in a military hospital in Paris on November 11 at the age of 75. Tens of thousands of Palestinians converged on the Muqata compound in Ramallah for his burial two days later, even though the Israeli army had closed off other towns in the West Bank
