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Reader's Digest India
|July 2017
An end to hunger—a business graduate’s dream.
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ANKIT KAWATRA may seem like the typical Delhi youngster with a life of privilege, but the story of this 25-year-old social entrepreneur and Feeding India, a nonprofit he started, is not ordinary.
It began in 2014 when Kawatra attended an extravagant wedding in Gurugram with a menu of over three-dozen dishes. He discovered that mountains of leftovers, which could have fed the hungry, would be wasted.
This story is from the July 2017 edition of Reader's Digest India.
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