“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 애인대행are part of a “beautification” project – 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 애인대행at the G20 is one of a modern superpower, a 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,”애인대행 said Harsh Mander, a social activist who works with homeless families and street children. “It doesn’t want poverty to be visible to the people who come here.”