NEW DELHI: Sixty-year-old Anju Sharma points to the family’s meager food supplies in her one-room shanty in a New Delhi slum as she clutches her skinny two-year-old grandchild on her lap.

There’s a bag of rice and a half tin of pulses in the windowless shack where daylight and pungent smells from a nearby garbage dump enter through a rusting open door.

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