From the ruins to a better life… perhaps? - 1x14’ - English
February 2003

In January 2001, the state of Gujarat in India was struck by a violent earthquake that killed 20,000 people and injured 160,000. What’s the status of reconstruction two years on? Some people have rebuilt what was destroyed exactly as it was, adhering strictly to old traditions, while others have attempted to use the earthquake as an opportunity for social development, building modern villages with improved hygiene and no caste distinctions.