G20 face-lift: Delhi removes poor people, but not poverty
by Srishti Jaswal
Sep 07, 2023
3 minutes
When officials and delegates arrive in Delhi for the G20 summit this weekend – marking the culmination of India’s yearlong presidency of the group of 20 leading nations – they will be treated to brand-new roads, lush greenways, and striking art installations.
But they won’t find Ayesha Sharma, a transgender woman who has survived by begging for the last seven years. One hot morning in April, Ms. Sharma had been begging for only a few minutes at a traffic signal in Delhi’s Dwarka neighborhood when six police officers arrived and detained
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