At traffic intersections, drivers in Delhi tune out the brown-haired, snot-nosed waifs who tap and scratch insistently at their car windows. Sometimes, the children are joined by equally ragged parents, mostly in their 20s, trying to sell cheap Chinese-made junk—from plastic flowers to cellphone and steering-wheel covers. The defining feature of destitution in North India…

via India is slowly cleaving into two countries—the old and the young — Quartz