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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
By Katherine Boo
Political Science, General, Travel, Essays & Travelogues | 288 pages
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Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community and global recession and terrorism shocks the city, tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy begin to turn brutal. As Boo gets to know those who dwell at Mumbai's margins, she evokes an extraordinarily vivid and vigorous group of individuals flourishing against the odds amid the complications, corruptions and gross inequalities of the new India.
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Rachel Giles
"I read this ahead of my first Explore trip to India earlier this year. It's an incredibly moving and enlightening read - I knew that there was poverty and corruption in India, but this brought it to life in a very readable and memorable way. It made me look a lot deeper into the country and its people during my visit."
