PHOTO OF THE DAY September 14, 2004  

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Where New Delhi, India
When 2002
Photographer William Albert Allard

"Uplifted by song, Sneha, an Untouchable eighth grader, leads classmates in a hand-clapping rehearsal of a patriotic anthem to be performed at a concert celebrating India's Republic Day. Kasturba Balika School in New Delhi provides education to some 700 under-privileged girls, most of them Untouchables. It is named for the wife of Mahatma Gandhi, the man who fought—and failed—to end the practice of Untouchability."

—From "Untouchable," June 2003, National Geographic magazine


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