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For India's Independence Day, Poonam, 10, (third from left) her sister Jyoti, 11, (third from right) and the pupils attending their cozy, private school are celebrating along the streets of 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'.
