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Indian Spiritual Leader Dies After Months of Fasting

Posted June 14th, 2011 at 4:45 pm (UTC-5)
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Indian spiritual leader Swami Nigamanand, who was on a hunger strike for 115 days to protest environmental abuses in the country, died late Monday at the age of 36 in a hospital in Uttarakhand state. Nigamanand was fasting to bring attention to pollution of India’s revered Ganga River, also known as the Ganges. Nigamanand, who […]

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