Women collecting water near their homes in a poor neighbourhood in Bommasandra, a district of Bangalore, overshadowed by the modern corporate office buildings of Electronic City. This industrial park is a centre for IT and technological industries and houses branches of over one hundred global companies. Heldur Hetocny/Panos Pictures, 2006.

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