When the tsunami waves lashed the eastern coast, the Government of India seemed as much at sea as the people affected by the disaster. Information just did not move out of Delhi to the disaster areas. But more than a week later, the administration seems to have found its feet. "Massive", is how every officer, bureaucrat and minister describes the scale of tsunami relief operations, which is billed as the largest peacetime operation conducted by the forces in India and perhaps in the world. Almost 20,000 personnel of the Army, Navy, Air Force and the Coast Guard are taking part in four separate operations