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beggars and slums – to impress foreign dignitaries. The image of India that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants to project at the G20 is one of a modern superpower, a leader of the Global South, and a
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voice for impoverished nations. But the government has been accused of hiding one of the country¡¯s own most entrenched and enduring problems. ¡°What strikes me most is that India, the Indian state, is ashamed of ostensible poverty,¡± said Harsh Mander, a social activist who works with homeless
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families and street children. ¡°It doesn¡¯t want poverty to be visible to the people who come here.¡±