Cyclone Nargis Cyclone Nargis posed 48 hours before it hit the country's coast. Relief efforts were slowed for political reasons as Myanmar's military rulers initially resisted large-scale international aid. US President George W. Bush said that an angry world should condemn the way Myanmar's military rulers were handling the aftermath of such a catastrophic cyclone. Myanmar's military junta finally accepted aid a few days after India's request was accepted. Hampering the relief efforts, only ten days after the cyclone, nearby central China was hit by a massive earthquake, known as the Sichuan earthquake which measured 7.9 in magnitude and it alone had
Nargis New York. Upon her return to India, her condition deteriorated and she was admitted at Breach Candy Hospital in Bombay. Nargis went into coma on 2 May 1981 after she became seriously ill and died the next day. Less than a week after her death, on 7 May 1981, at the premiere of her son's debut film "Rocky", one seat was kept vacant for her. Nargis was buried at Badakabarastan in Marine Lines, Mumbai. A street in Bandra, Mumbai, was renamed Nargis Dutt Road in her memory. One year after her death, The Nargis Dutt Memorial Cancer Foundation (Barshi Maharashtra)