“I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were prospering like crazy, I couldn't quite make out how the new wealth had changed the prospects of the majority of city residents who lived in slums. So after a few years I stopped wondering and started reporting.” YearsWealthCitiesWonderCrazyChangedMetsHusbandMajoritySpendingIndianMy HusbandProspectsResidentsMake OutSlumsMumbaiProspering Author:Katherine Boo
“One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor by Indian benchmarks. ... True, a few residents trapped rats and frogs and fried them for dinner. A few ate the scrub grass at the sewage lake edge. And these individuals, miserable souls, thereby made an inestimable contribution to their neighbors. They gave those slum dwellers who didn't fry rats and eat weeds a sense of their upward mobility.” WritingMadeSoulEndsIndividualPoorCenturyAreasIndiaEdgesDinnerNeighborMiserableIndianGrassContributionLakesWeedTrappedRats20th CenturyFrogsResidentsMobilitySlumsDwellersSewageUpward Mobility Author:Katherine Boo
“The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.” JusticeUnderstoodGuiltCriminalsInnocenceIndianBagsGarbageJustice SystemCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice System Book:Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum Source: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
