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Updates from Bob and Siromani Stoll
January 2011 Update
This Christmas was celebrated with a special dinner (pictured) to which the children were able to wear their new Christmas clothes.... read more >>
September 2010 Update
I had a great time in India last July at Jyothia Nivas, the boarding school/orphanage in Narsapur.
Fourteen computers were set up in a new computer lab... read more >>
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About India
Location
Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan
Capital City
New Dehli
Area
2,973,190 sq km (slightly more than one-third the size of the US)
Population
1,147,995,904
Languages
Hindi 41%, Bengali 8.1%, Telugu 7.2%, Marathi 7%, Tamil 5.9%, Urdu 5%, Gujarati 4.5%, Kannada 3.7%, Malayalam 3.2%, Oriya 3.2%, Punjabi 2.8%, Assamese 1.3%, Maithili 1.2%, other 5.9%
Religion
Hindu 80.5%, Muslim 13.4%, Christian 2.3%, Sikh 1.9%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.1% (2001 census)
**data from www.cia.gov