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The Battalion Classified Advertising CALCUTTA, India (AP) — Bijoy Mallick spent the morning after Mother Teresa’s funeral like any other, scraping up rotting food from the streets of his Calcutta slum to feed his family’s pigs. “I travel two hours with this pushcart every day to collect the waste,” the teen-ager said Sunday while washing out the cart. Inside was a small oil drum filled with lumpy, mustard-colored muck. The day after India and the world bid final farewell to the nun who devoted her life to this city’s poor, it was business as usual for Calcutta’s millions of slum- dwellers. On the city’s east ern edge, they picked through garbage heaps for recyclables, hawked chunks of fly-covered pork or earned a few cents haul ing rawhide off a truck into a tannery. The problems of the Despite Mother Teresa’s death, citizens continue wo Tengra neighborhood — overcrowding, open sew ers, contaminated drink ing water, lack of jobs and education—are the prob lems of Calcutta, and illus trate how deep-rooted and persistent the poverty is that Mother Teresa spent her days fighting. “Things haven’t really changed here,” said Vikram Jairath, who owns a tannery in Tengra where workers make about $2 in an eight-hour shift. “Things have gone from bad to worse.” Calcutta presents chal lenges that rival any of the world’s impoverished cities. Up to 40 percent of the area’s 13 million resi dents live in slums. With no social safety net, they scrape out a living any way they can. History, geography and politics conspired to transform Calcutta from an industrial center to a byword for deprivation. The British built Calcut ta 300 years ago as the cap ital of their empire in India. 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