“As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an NGO and say, "Tell me about the good work that you're doing and introduce me to the poor people who represent the kind of help you give." It serves to streamline the storytelling, but it gives you a lopsided cosmos in which almost every poor person you read about is involved with a NGO helping him. Our understanding of poverty and how people escape from poverty, in any country, is quite distorted.” PeopleGivingKindCountryHelpingUnderstandingPoorPovertyStorytellingIntroducingGood WorkPoor People Author:Katherine Boo
“.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.” CountryOpportunityJusticePowerfulBecomingCitizensUncomfortable Book:Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity Source: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
“In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.” MeanCountrySocialBreakIncreaseCorruptionBreaking DownAdvancementRespectable Author:Katherine Boo
