It was in the early hours before dawn that chaos gripped a quiet suburb northeast of New Delhi—a neighborhood brimming with the anonymous ambitions of India’s millions of migrant workers—when a four-storey residential building, still under construction, collapsed with a violence so abrupt, it...
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