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India sweeps New Delhi’s poor under the rug for G20 summit

Rishi Lekhi and Piyush Nagpal

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New Delhi | New Delhi’s crowded streets have been resurfaced. Streetlights are illuminating once dark sidewalks. City buildings and walls are painted with bright murals and graffiti. Planted flowers are everywhere.

Many of the city’s poor say they were simply erased, much like the stray dogs and monkeys that have been removed from some neighbourhoods, as India’s capital got its makeover ahead of this week’s summit of the Group of 20 nations.

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