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Local children living in shelters, oh, and Lars  
   

Local children living in shelters, oh, and Lars

The effect on the children in this town is awful, many have lost one or both of there parents as a result of the tsunami
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July 17th 2005
200 km south of Pondy lies Tranquebar, a former Danish colony. As I am travelling with two Danish people it was a natural destination for us. Nothing however could have prepared us for what we saw there. 40,000 people in Tamil Nadu alone we killed in the Tsunami and it was the worst affected state in India, Tranquebar was one of the villages hit, it is very close to the sea and the land lies ve ... read more
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Indian Flag The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 5,000 years. Aryan tribes from the northwest invaded about 1500 B.C.; their merger with the earlier Dravidian inhabitants created the classical Indian culture. Arab in... ... read more
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