“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.”
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Katherine Boo
Katherine Boo is an American journalist renowned for her in-depth investigative reporting and focus on social injustice. Her work often centers on impoverished and marginalized communities, revealing social issues through meticulous detail. more