Please visit the SAJA web site for updates to evolving stories about the disaster in South and South East Asia. If you are a journalist aching to find a local angle or a different perspective, there are people and resources that can help you. The blog, Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami (SEA-EAT) remains one of the best with updated information.

Some journalists/writer friends who have already addressed this global catastrophe:

Shankar Vedantam, Suketu Mehta, Sumathi Reddy. You may have to register with each of those sites to read the articles.

I'll do my best to keep adding names and links to desi writers. If you know of any, please add it to the comment section below (please provide the correct name of the writer, the publication and the entire or snipped link).

Please consider donating to the Tsunami Relief Fund.

“In 1977 On Photography won her the National Book Critics Circle award for criticism. “I came to realise,” Sontag said of the book, “that I wasn’t writing about photography so much as I was writing about modernity, about the way we are now. The subject of photography is a form of access to contemporary ways of feeling and thinking.” Her later treatise on photography, Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), examined how pictures of warfare were both informed by, and influenced, contemporary political and artistic concerns of those who produce the photographs, and those who in turn view them.”

Susan Sontag, the writer who nudged me to think about photography as a cultural pursuit rather than just a object of desire has died. She was 71. Read all related news stories about Ms. Sontag here.

South East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami (how unfortunate that this abbreviates to SEA-EAT) has a slew of links and other precious information that you can check on for updates about the situation in South & South East Asia.

The Acorn has a list of ways you can help. And if you are reading this, you can make a donation via this site. Look to the top right section of the page to see the TSUNAMI RELIEF FUND. Help me reach $10,000.

Via Laura Taflinger

Ok, so, I can't sing worth a nickel, but as artist, illustrator and designer Kunal Anand says, I still keep those old songs “close to my heart.”

But this isn't about songs or music, at least not directly. Kunal, based in London, has just launched two very hip t-shirts that he has designed. The one I want can be seen below.

This is a must see site. Sree Sreenivasan's list (made via Furl.net) is a treasure trove, at least for this geek.