Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs Sunil Dutt writes a message for tsunami victims in Delhi on January 12, 2005.
The death toll from the December 26 earthquake and tsunamis that devastated Indian Ocean coastlines rose to 158,860 as Indonesia added another 1,261 to its list of fatalities.
Inset: School students write messages
Photograph: Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images
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