![]() ![]() For middle-class people like me who grew up in Bombay, forays into slums were infrequent. ![]() ![]() Since she doesn't know any Indian languages, she had translators throughout, one of whom must have helped her understand the sort of rejoinder that Asha made to Robert, ex-slumlord and one of her tormentors. For this, her first book, Boo, a Pulitzer prize-winning staff writer on the New Yorker, spent much of her life between November 2007 and March 2011 in Annawadi, documenting events with "written notes, video recordings, audiotapes and photographs". ![]() Her plausible rebuttal had me wondering what its Hindi or Marathi original might have been.įor Katherine Boo, working on this intimate account of life in Annawadi was slow, uncertain and painful in a variety of ways. Shall I strip naked and dance for you now?'" This is how Asha, an ambitious woman who has set her sights on being slumlord in Annawadi, a large slum close to Sahar International Airport in Mumbai, replies to men who'd take advantage of her for her "large breasts and her small, drunken husband". ![]()
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