Friday, September 6, 2024

Bombay Poverty, 1964

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Homeless people sleeping in a street in Bombay (Mumbai), India, December 7th 1964. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
 
 

George Fernandes

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