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Off The Grid: India's Tent City

Posted by: David Gest

5 April 2006 - 6:00am

Over a million struggling families surround a state capital in tents, not registered on any government lists for educational or welfare services.

"They leave their villages by bus, by cart, or on foot, and head to Hyderabad, the capital of the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. An estimated 500,000 families eke out a living working construction and raising families. In the shadow of the high-rises that they build, they live in a sprawl of tents where the smells of pungent spices and milky tea fight with the stench of urine and exhaust."

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Source: The Christian Science Monitor, April 4, 2006
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