“It doesn’t want poverty to be visible to the people who come here.”

But activists have questioned the timing, claiming instead that the demolitions are part of a “beautification” 완도출장샵project – a campaign to rid the city of its 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, 경기출장샵a leader of the Global South, and a 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 양평출장샵who works with homeless families and street children. “It doesn’t want poverty to be visible to the people who come here.”