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Urmila Maurya, 38, sits on a table, one of her only two pieces of unharmed furniture left of what was once her slum home in the institutional area of Lodi Colony, an upmarket area in New Delhi, India on 03 January 2012. A mother of 2, she spends her days on the pavement stringing flowers into garlands for devotees at the nearby Hindu temple. At night, she lays down on the same plastic tarpaulin she uses for the flowers but claims that the police come and tear it up in an attempt to discourage her from squatting in the open. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National

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Urmila Maurya, 38, sits on a table, one of her only two pieces of unharmed furniture left of what was once her slum home in the institutional area of Lodi Colony, an upmarket area in New Delhi, India on 03 January 2012. A mother of 2, she spends her days on the pavement stringing flowers into garlands for devotees at the nearby Hindu temple. At night, she lays down on the same plastic tarpaulin she uses for the flowers but claims that the police come and tear it up in an attempt to discourage her from squatting in the open. Photo by Suzanne Lee for The National