{"id":58169,"date":"2023-09-08T13:27:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T04:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/ashamed-of-our-presence-delhi-glosses-over-plight-of-poor-as-it-rolls-out-g20-red-carpet"},"modified":"2023-09-08T13:27:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T04:27:44","slug":"ashamed-of-our-presence-delhi-glosses-over-plight-of-poor-as-it-rolls-out-g20-red-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58169","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ashamed of our presence\u2019: Delhi glosses over plight of poor as it rolls out G20 red carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools, offices, markets and restaurants have been ordered to close for three days as the city is cleaned up ahead of the arrival of world leaders<\/p>\n<p>The first time that Saroaj Devi heard about the G20 was when tall green walls began to be erected around the slum in Delhi where she lives.<\/p>\n<p>The new barricades, she soon realised, were to hide their impoverished homes from the foreign leaders and dignitaries who will descend on India\u2019s capital this weekend for the G20 leaders\u2019 summit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/06\/in-newly-gleaming-delhi-modi-hopes-g20-will-cement-india-as-a-major-global-player\">part of a \u00a3100m facelift<\/a> that has seen Delhi undergo a glossy upgrade, while its poor communities have been removed from sight and several slums razed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/08\/ashamed-of-our-presence-delhi-glosses-over-plight-of-poor-as-it-rolls-out-g20-red-carpet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools, offices, markets and restaurants have been ordered to close for three days as the city is cleaned up ahead of the arrival of world leadersThe first time that Saroaj Devi heard about the G20 was when tall green walls began to be erected around &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2865,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,42],"tags":[497],"class_list":["post-58169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","tag-g20"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2865"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58170,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58169\/revisions\/58170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}