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SAI International School
Class IX - English
Chapter - Weathering the Storm in Ersama
Lesson Notes

About the Author-

Harsh Mander (born on 17th of
April 1955) is an Indian author,
columnist, researcher, teacher,
and social activist, who works with
survivors of mass violence and
hunger, as well as homeless
persons and street children.
He is the Director of the Centre for
Equity Studies, a research
organization based in New
Delhi. He also served as Special
Commissioner to the Supreme
Court of India in the Right to Food
Campaign and was a member of
the National Advisory Council of
the Government of India. He has
occasionally come under media
attention for his liberal views.

Teaching career
Harsh Mander teaches courses on poverty and governance at
the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and St. Stephen’s
College, Delhi. He taught at the Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and
Conflict Resolution at Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi and has given
lectures in leading learning institutions

Introduction

This story written by Harsh Mander gives an account of the storm that
hit the coastal town of Ersama in Orissa in the year 1999. A young boy
Prashant faced the fury of the storm and reached his village. The