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Anjuli Bhargava New Delhi
Up in the skies, Indrani Singh, a senior commander with Air India, found she was quite at peace with what she saw around her. It was on the ground that things seemed less happy.

In the Palam Vihar area in Gurugram, where she lived, she saw a lot of poor children with no hope for the future and access to only dismal education, if they attended school at all. Dozens of children on the streets quite regularly begged, wandered aimlessly, hungry all the time. Somehow what everyone took for granted in many cities across India — and seemed quite immune —