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'America's Got Talent' Win Could Help Mumbai Group Out Of Poverty

NPR | By Sushmita Pathak
Published April 1, 2020 at 4:04 AM CDT

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Acrobatic dancers from Mumbai's slums performed to a Bollywood song and wowed the audience. Fame may help them out of poverty. NPR's India producer visited some of their homes.

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