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Every time I go out to the market place, I see small rag pickers, with their torn dresses, unwashed hair, a big dirty bag, shooing off the street dogs barking at them, sometimes munching some goody found in their daily scourging of garbage.
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UPA government on Thursday adopted an ambitious target of making India
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Children selling gum or washing windshields in the streets of Mexico are as ubiquitous as traffic lights.
But a new proposal here would forbid the presence of street...
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For many in the village of Mondul 3 in Siem Reap Cambodia poverty is a way of life, for Sov Soparath this poverty ended in...
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By: Rajbir Deswal
We met him in Mcleod Ganj. In the main market. Close to the Namgyal Monastery. By the side of momos vending stall. He was wearing branded ankle...
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Indian sub - continent has been my favorite from some time. Because, it has two third - world democracies and two third - world nuclear power as well. Especially since...
made popular May 7 2009
When William Wallace, portrayed by Mel Gibson in the film ‘Braveheart,’ screamed “Freedom!” moments before he was decapitated, one can’t help but notice that...
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Blame it on illiteracy or more correctly on poverty. The twelve year old rag picker in Jaipur whose only concern must have been to earn enough to satisfy her hunger on...
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Finally the day is over. Late into the night as I walk across the room towards my bed, my feet betray me. My intimidated brain revolts against itself. Somehow I manage...
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Very often the media will catch on to a story and through the act of hype transform the reality into a well-narrated fiction. Instead of being impartial observers who...
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The global economic crisis has stymied the international community’s effort to halve extreme poverty by 2015 and meet other goals to reduce hunger, fight disease...
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Lakhi used to work as a domestic help in the house of...
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Human traffickers are preying on children displaced by the Muslim insurgency in Mindanao. The Visayan Forum Foundation, which monitors human trafficking in the...
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