Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Annawadi slum at Mumbai Airport. ( Insert Katherine Bo) HLC: Behind the Beautiful Forever not only had a clever title echoing both the meaning of the slum - physically located behind the billboards announcing ‘Behind the Beautiful Forever” at Mumbai airport, but a title which also hints at the truth behind the obvious depictions of slum life. The work created a strong author “hint” as to why there is less protest from such large, abused populations it is the simple exhaustion of the people trying to survive in the ways described so richly in this work.

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Katherine Bo may well be right. As an expose of daily slum life in Mumbai this book was utterly brilliant, as a piece of investigative journalism it was outstanding, as a piece of dramatized research it was truly awesome. I was enthralled with the power of the authors observation and insights.

In terms of literary criticism it made me think a lot about the boundaries of dramatized non-fiction and fiction, and what the essential differences between these genres might/should be. Notwithstanding that I believe all names were real and all facts faithfully recorded and cross checked, the sheer amount of editing and re-organizing the material into an accessible “dramatized” narrative makes it, to me indistinguishable from better level of literary fiction but none the poorer for whatever label.

Why don’t slum people rise in protest? Starting with substantive issues, Bo in her memorable “Author Note” states the following, “> So how far did she succeed in answering her own question “After all, there are more poor people than rich people in the world’s Mumbais. Why don’t places like Airport Road, with their cheek-by-jowl slums and luxury hotels, look like the insurrectionist video game Metal Slug 3?” The obvious answer is that they are too busy surviving, and the narrative which Bo weaves from her 4 years of research certainly could support such a conclusion. The two main drivers of the desperation, which the book records are 1) the poverty and 2) the corruption.

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Where this no money there is always crime and corruption. Where there is crime and corruption there is no one law for all. Small groups demand and gain “exemption/favors” either by strong arm or manipulation of insider/govt power trading ( public service) and the law is bit by bit ( usually gradually) undermined at every twist and turn. There cannot be “fairness “in a system where the rule of law is insufficiently maintained, and the first to suffer are the disempowered, either from lack of connections or lack of food. Corruption comes as much from government ( insider protection) as it does from corporate deals. The slum dwellers hardly had a chance. The one ray of hope we are left with is that the family won the court case over “one leg”.

Poverty “Garbage proceeds had financed a two-week stay in a small private hospital, where he’d breathed oxygen instead of foul slum air. Karam was shining. He looked naya tak-a-tak, brand new. “I can’t believe it,” p/78 “Having accepted a life of sorting early on, he considered himself a separate species from Mirchi or the most-everything girl, Manju, or the other young people at Annawadi who believed they might become something different. Abdul had been aiming for a future like the past, but with more money” p110 “Sunil’s concrete ledge above the Mithi River was wiped clean by the wind and the rain. He found a little consolation behind one of the walls lining Airport Road.