‘My husband said: Why are you alive and my sons dead?’

IT took just a few seconds for Shiva Shankari, like her village, to lose her future.

Her husband blames her for losing it, for not holding on hard enough to their two sons when the tsunami swept through their south Indian village.

“I thought that my two sons were my future. With them I could build this family,” the 22-year-old said, choking back tears at a refugee camp in the sprawling Hindu temple of Neela Dayachi Amman.