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Monday, November 06, 2006

INDIA - Tourists see life on wrong side of track

Telegraph London, 25-10-2006

For 200 rupees ($6), boys who once survived on their wits living rough on the platforms of New Delhi's railway station are offering visitors a taste of life as a street urchin. From running with pickpocket gangs to scavenging for scraps on arriving trains and dodging blows from the police, foreign tourists are spared no detail of life on the other side of the tracks.

The guides, who are organised by a charity for railway children, the Salaam Baalak Trust, take their paying guests to all the nooks and crannies of a station.

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