‘We’ve been made to vanish’: Slums razed and curtains drawn before G20 summit in Delhi

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New Delhi came to a standstill on Friday in advance of the weekend G20 summit, with offices, schools and shops closed, major roads barred to public traffic and hundreds of flights and trains into Delhi cancelled. The city underwent a revamp in advance of the summit, but this has come at a cost for poorer sections of the community – some of whom have been relocated and had their houses knocked down. More than 130,000 security personnel, including snipers, special forces paramilitary commandos have been deployed to safeguard delegates from the world’s richest countries. Indian Air Force combat and surveillance...