Despite its emergence as a technological center, Bangalore, India, is not immune to the poverty that shackles the country as a whole. In 1997, 426 million people in India lived on less than US$1 a day. This represents 44 percent of the country’s population, well exceeding the entire population of the United States. The grandmother pictured here, like many poor people in Bangalore, finds sleeping in the street preferable to sleeping in stifling, insect-infested mud and thatch housing.
—Photo by Erin Hooper |
