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...native India --where nearly half a million children suffer from blindness. Many of these cases would have been preventable with the proper medical care, and, says Sinha, "I wanted to help the children get treatment." So with funding from the National Institutes of Health, he launched Project Prakash (it means "light" in Sanskrit), a humanitarian initiative to help expand eye care in India...
...recognize her family's faces and identify objects. And that's a very big deal. Dr. Suma Ganesh, a pediatric ophthalmologist at the Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital in Old Delhi, India, used to believe that operating on blind children past the critical period was hopeless. But Project Prakash showed her that just isn't the case. "Even if a blind kid, after an operation, manages to see up to three meters, it makes a big difference," Ganesh says...
Gandhi moved decisively to quell the crisis, pressuring Punjab Chief Minister Surjit Singh Barnala to arrest an estimated 200 Sikh political leaders and extremist figures in predawn sweeps. Chief among them: Prakash Singh Badal, leader of a breakaway faction of the Akali Dal party, which rules Punjab state, and Gurcharan Singh Tohra, the powerful head of the state committee that manages Sikh temples. Tohra, who has been accused of appeasing terrorists, was detained after he announced he would abolish the special security force that since last summer has prevented the use of the Golden Temple as a haven for terrorists...
...police argue that it's not a class bias that determines their actions, but an outdated police code established in 1861, which promotes the enforcement of law and order over investigative work. "It is not a crime to go missing," says Prakash Singh, the former chief of police of Uttar Pradesh, the state in which Noida is located. "But kidnapping is against the penal code." Holding a CEO's son for ransom is a criminal act that the police must pursue. There is no motivation to investigate a case of missing children. This is just one of the issues Singh...
...stores along, Om Prakash, 70, agrees that the fireworks make for a noisy Diwali. "When I was a child we had small crackers but these days they are bigger," he says, his hollowed out cheeks pulsing as he talks. To curb the noise, local authorities limit where fireworks can be sold and have introduced set hours during which they can be let off. Although a Delhi newspaper started a "Say No to Crackers" campaign, "people are not listening," says Prakash. "We are sleeping and there is still so much noise pollution. You can't escape...