An Indian census official presents a memento to Senior Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) Leader L K Advani after taking details of his family members for "2011 census" in New Delhi on Thursday,06 May 2010. Some two and a half million officials have begun the task of collecting national population information across India"s 650,000 villages and 5,500 towns and cities to record the chaotic South Asian nation"s teeming billion-plus population.

Photographer: A Sarthak

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