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[Via Economic Times] and [Chennai Online News Service]

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation (ALF), today handed over the keys of permanent houses, built at a total cost of Rs 1.65 crore, to 60 tsunami-hit families of Periyamanickapangu village near here in Nagapattinam district.

The houses were constructed by [...]

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[via propoor]
It isn’t easy living on a dollar a day, even when you’re trekking through poverty-stricken India. Just ask Nipun and Guri Mehta, who held themselves to that amount while taking a walking pilgrimage through the country last year.
The young couple, who live in Berkeley, relied on the kindness of strangers and the beneficent [...]

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