In 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers', a true account spun off as a novel, about life in Annawadi, a slum adjoining Mumbai airport, author Katherine Boo ...
09:20 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and writer Katherine Boo won the national book award for nonfiction for 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,' which sheds light on the lives of India's poor as well as government corruption. Author Louise Erdrich took the top fiction award for her moving novel 'The Round House,' about a woman raped in a Native American community, at the annual national book...
11:31 AM, Nov 15, 2012
When I first started reading, 'Behind the Beautiful Forevers' by Katherine Boo, it didn't strike me as a different book. I mean I had read the similar story in Suketu Mehta's, 'Maximum City' (Honestly I didn't think much of it), though it was in brief. It was still more or less the same - Mumbai and its dichotomy (like every major cosmopolitan), its slums, its smells and sights and the...
05:45 PM, Mar 26, 2012
New York: Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo's idea to spend her days in a Mumbai slum originated one night while she was lying on the floor of her Washington, DC area home with a punctured lung and three broken ribs after tripping over a dictionary. The former Washington Post editor and reporter and current New Yorker staff writer figured that if she couldn't escape calamity in her own home, she...
11:09 AM, Mar 14, 2012
