As soon as Susanta Giri was old enough, he virtually ran away from his home in Baikunthapur in the Kultali block of the mangrove delta of West Bengal’s Sundarbans to study in Kolkata. While on his way to City College he would see Mother Teresa and her helpers engage in serving the city’s destitutes and admire her from a distance.
Taking inspiration from her, he wanted to do something for his village, which neither had a school nor a hospital. He used a local youth club, Baikunthapur Tarun Sangha, to start work among the farmers and fishermen of his village in
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