An Epidemic Of Unrest

Here's how some different news agencies report on the same event.

From India; from New York City; from China; from London; from Paris; from Tokyo; from the Kingdom [note the date and story]; from Jerusalem; from Calgary [again, note the date, story and fact that this link also works for Montreal, Edmonton, Ottawa and Vancouver]; from Toronto; from Caracas; from Salt Lake City; from Fairbanks; and, of course, from Nepal itself. Here. Here. Here. And especially this story and this one. Here's a short, but poignant glimpse of life in the Himalayas. You have to wonder, however, when some of your neighbours don't even notice sustained, violent upheavals such as Nepal has been experiencing.

But is this sort of thing out of the ordinary?
Not really; which could explain some of our innate indifference whenever these kinds of things happen so far away from one's own home.

[Update July 31, 2006 : The links for India, Jerusalem, Caracas, Salt Lake City and Fairbanks are no longer functional. On behalf of the formerly linked news agencies I would like to thank you for your patronage. -jp]