‘The Rising Voice Of The Global South’: Was India’s G20 Presidency Hope For A World In Disarray Or Just An Expensive Makeover?

1.42 billion people in India must be aware that their country is hosting the G20 summit. In cities across this vast nation, the beaming face of Prime Minister Narendra Modi adorns the giant posters rhetorically informing the public about the G20 presidency.

As some of the most powerful leaders descend into Delhi for the two-day summit, the Indian government has spent upward of Rs 9 crores to beautify the capital city and has covered up the national capital’s slum and low-lying areas as if to show that the poor never existed there.

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