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From Bronx classrooms to Rome's newsrooms, a personal journey through perception and deception.

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Last fortnight, I travelled to Sihora in Madhya Pradesh to attend the 83rd Christa Panthi Ashram Day. It was my third visit to that tranquil village, but my first to witness the annual celebration of