One month on, India`s go-it-alone policy has paid strategic dividends and buried for good a begging-bowl past. Ordinary people opened their hearts and wallets to aid the hundreds of thousands of tsunami victims. In Picture: A tsunami survivor waits for teachers as she sit in front of a school building in Kuttiammankoil, 300 km south of Chennai. AFP
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