“In my kind of reporting work, you don't parachute in after some big, terrible event, which is important and has to be covered, but offers only a glimpse. It's the kind of work in which you ask, what is my understanding of how the world works, and where can I go to see these questions get worked out in individuals' lives? That was really the question for me: whether I had anything to add to what had already been written.” WorldKindImportantUnderstandingTerrible Author:Katherine Boo
“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
“Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home , entirely dependent on this man, and then it turns out his heart was never with me. How is it possible to force someone to love me?” MenHeartKindHomeLife IsTurnsForceRightsDependent 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
