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Rajan Kaur receives a special award from HH Dalai Lama

In April, Rajan traveled with her family to San Francisco to receive the Unsung Heroes of Compassion award from Wisdom in Action, a California-based nonprofit. HH Dalai Lama was the honored guest at a reception of 500 people who came to pay respect to the 49 awardees.

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Poverty in India: a problem on a huge scale

• December 3, 2008: World Bank estimates 456 million people -- just over 40 percent of India's population of 1.2 billion -- now live on less than $1.25 per day, a sum recognised as the international poverty line. Almost half of India's children are malnourished. 1000 die every day from diahorrea and hundreds of millions have no access to proper sanitation. These figures provide a grim counterpoint to the glitzy high-rises and designer shopping malls that have sprung up throughout the country's major cities. #

Children of a lesser God

• June 19: The largest number of child labourers in the country are from Uttar Pradesh despite anti-child labour schemes in place since the 1980s. And this is not an allegation by activists but the finding of a report released by the UP government ~ The State of Children in Uttar Pradesh. The Statesman | Read the Full Story | #

Dalits in U.P. Face Hunger Deaths and Suicides

• 9 May, 2008: Dalits in U.P. Face Hunger Deaths and Suicides: When George Bush is admonishing India for eating too much, Dalits in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh face hunger deaths and suicides. Countercurrents.org | Read the Full Story | #