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| Author | Kovid Gupta Shaheen Mistri |
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| Cover artist | Sunhil Sippy |
| Country | India |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 2014 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 286 pp |
| ISBN | 8184005636 |
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Shaheen Mistri, a young college student from USA, visits Mumbai during a summer vacation with her parents. She walks into a slum and meets Pinky, followed by many other children who shape her journey that follows. Shaheen meets the many children of India as the years pass, joining their stories of hope and survival. This book is the powerful telling of a movement that aims to bring young Indians under the collective vision that one day, all children in India will receive an excellent education. [1]
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