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Tanking up ; He's known as much for his Karl Marx beard as his sobriquet. The water warrior from Gaya, 97 km south of Patna, is the resident agony uncle, with people flocking to him for advice on life and work.

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From: India Today
Date: 20080707
Author:Amitabh Srivastava

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He's known as much for his Karl Marx beard as his sobriquet. The water warrior from Gaya, 97 km south of Patna, is the resident agony uncle, with people flocking to him for advice on life and work.

The post-graduate in sociology who has refused a number of teaching jobs only to become a rarely paid freelance journalist is an unlikely hero.

Though Prabhat Shandilya has scripted a unique success story called Magadh Jal Jamaat a loosely knit body of progressive individuals, who have so far revived more than a dozen abandoned water sources, created a few new ones, ...

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