"This is all I have," says 40-year-old Kamlesh, who goes by one name, pointing to the cot he is seated on. A change of clothes hanging on the wall completes his list of material possessions.
Tucked away off a busy street in Thanagazi town, even the shack he lives in belongs to a friend.
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