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While cracking betel nut for her mother, Jyoti, 15, is trying to attract's her sister Poona's attention, as she reads a newspaper next to their mother, Sangita, 43, intent on changing a SIM card on her mobile, as they sit on the floor or their newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.
![While cracking betel nut for her mother, Jyoti, 15, is trying to attract's her sister Poona's attention, as she reads a newspaper next to their mother, Sangita, 43, intent on changing a SIM card on her mobile, as they sit on the floor or their newly built home in Oriya Basti, one of the water-contaminated colonies in Bhopal, central India, near the abandoned Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) industrial complex, site of the infamous '1984 Gas Disaster'.](https://m.psecn.photoshelter.com/img-get2/I0000a7quGWnYxII/fit=1000x750/033-Poonam-Tale-of-Hope.jpg)
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