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Published 20 May, 2011 10:08am

Where should I live? “Vanishing slums”

Slums are demolished nearly every week in India because the land has become too valuable, or the slum has become an eyesore, or when a politician wants to push out opposition voters. Meanwhile residents are left struggling against landlords, corrupt bureaucrats and an inept, overburdened legal system that gives them little recourse to justice when the bulldozers come. - Photo by AP

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