Children staying in a care home set up by Karibeeran Paramesvaran and his wife Choodamani, leave the care home as they head to school in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. More than 6,000 people were killed in their coastal district of Nagapattinam - the hardest-hit area in India where nearly 9,000 died on the mainland and almost 42,000 people were rendered homeless.
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