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India-lifestyle-society-dance,FEATURE by Rachel O'Brien
Indian dancers from the Slumgods, a group of breaking or 'b-boying' dancers, takes part in a practice session at the Sion fort in Mumbai on November 30, 2012. The youngsters from India's best-known slum spin, twist and flip their bodies to the hip hop beat -- but don't call them break dancers. And definitely not slumdogs. These are the SlumGods, who want to show there is more to life in a Mumbai shantytown than poverty, squalor and trying to escape -- even if the hit film Slumdog Millionaire made you think otherwise. AFP PHOTO/ PUNIT PARANJPE (Photo credit should read PUNIT PARANJPE/AFP/Getty Images)

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An Indian musician adopts another musical custom to comment on social problems at home.

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Date 22.02.2013
Editor Jessie Wingard
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