IN PICTURES: CHENNAI PICKS UP THE PIECES

Chennai is limping out of devastating floods. Relief and rehabilitation has assumed enormous proportions with the waters sparing no one this time around. The poor have been left particularly helpless, and threat of epidemics loom large as the waters recede.

Yashaswani Sehrawat, not a professional photographer but a student of mass communications, has tried to capture the desolation of the victims, and the challenges facing Chennai in the photographs below: