Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

This is a non-fiction book which places urban poor in the present development discourse. Reading this book not only helps you to come across many realities but also gives you an idea of sound methodology and broadening your paradigm. This is an easy read book. I strongly recommend it for researchers as well as common readers. The book narrates the coping strategy of slum dwellers for sustaining their life. The narration is strong and sometimes you are swayed with the author's word, and can make you cry and angry too. Happy reading! My best!

A very well written documentary.. an in depth description of the slum life; their aspirations, emotions, the oppressive society who will let those who are born poor die poor too.. It was just what I was looking for.

The book gives you a glimpse into that part of our country that feels like alien even to a person who has spent his whole life here. At first one tends to approach this book with the assumption that it is going to be another version of cliched life altering experience by a foreigner who visited this country to see the poverty and typical Indian social order. However, as you gradually move ahead into this book you feel it more to be an unaltered glimpse of life in Annawadi. The author has maintained her neutrality while writing this book and brought the facts forward in shape of fictional realism. A real piece of literary art. Take a bow Mrs Katherine Boo.

When I read I feel like the writer knows extremely well the situation the descriptions are excellents I dont like the English level for me the words are complicated the understanding I recommend this boon to people who want a wink about Mumbai I like the scenery description

It deals with Annawadi slum and their problems. How it is contrasting that this slum is between city most beautiful airport and hotel. A good read.

Loved Katherine's style of writing; she picked up an everyday Indian story and gave it a global platform, and highlighted it in a very lucid manner. This is the true India that we miss in the noise: filthy and unforgiving. A must read especially if you want to come face-to-face with the underbellies with our financial capital. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Our understanding of Mumbai is largely limited to the Dharavi of Bollywood and the under ground from Suketu Mehra's Maximum City. Katherine Boo really does the incredible. As un-Indian as she is, she manages to place a finger on the pulse of a people largely unacknowledged by us. She writes about their strife, their aspirations and their form of living with the nuance of someone who really knows what she's talking about. And the story telling itself is rather incredible. It's been a while since I read the book, but I've recommended it to and ordered it for about everyone I know.

A great book which makes ur eyes damp after reading it. The life of people in a slum called Annawadi that is near an airport in Mumbai and how the state behaves towards them. The police, the government, political parties and corporates all are part of it. A recommended book for anyone who wants to know about how prosperity and pauperism exists in the great Indian city of Mumbai