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‘Too afraid to sleep’: India’s homeless women suffer as cities expand

Homeless women and a child sit amidst their belongings on a pavement in New Delhi, which has among the most homeless people in India. July 4, 2018. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Rina Chandran

By: Sarwar Alam

Manjeet Kaur cannot say exactly how old she is or how long she has lived on the pavement of a busy street in New Delhi, her belongings in plastic bags, her washing hanging on the railing. Kaur was kicked out years ago by her husband’s family in the northern Indian city of Ludhiana after a quarrel over property. She boarded a bus to New Delhi with her two young sons, going first to a Sikh gurudwara, a place of worship, for free food. With no money and no one to turn to, Kaur and her sons settled on the pavement outside…

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