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'City of Joy' inspiration still working for India's poor / 33DJ8RX
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Decades after inspiring a best-selling novel that brought readers into slums near Kolkata, 86-year-old ascetic Gaston Dayanand is still working for India's poorest.
His life helping people in the mega-slums of Pilkhana formed the plot of Dominique Lapierre's 1985 book "The City of Joy", which was later turned into a Hollywood movie. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES