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Homes on the edge of the Pallikaranai marsh in Sholinganallur, Chennai
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Opinion: A city cannot tax what it refuses to maintain

Chennai's residents are not dodging a tax. They are reading the bill against the street outside, flooded, unconnected and unrepaired, and asking the oldest question in municipal politics: what, exactly, was paid for?

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