But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them. — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
We talk a lot about infrastructure in cities, and it's talking about highways and it's talking about trains, but I think more… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But if change… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
As a reporter, you know the tropes of how stories on poverty work in any country. A reporter will go to an… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
When I pick a story, I'm very much aware of the larger issues that it's illuminating. But one of the things that… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
“In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help a neighbor is to risk your ability to… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
“The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
“For years, Asha had hoped that her daughter wouldn’t guess about the men. Now she wished she had raised Manju to be worldly enough… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
“What was unfolding in Mumbai was unfolding elsewhere, too. In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the city were… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
One thing that was very clear to me is that the young people in a place like Annawadi aren't tripping on caste the way… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
“Besides, this was the gentle-going hour in which he hated Annawadi least. The pale sun lent the sewage lake a sparkling silver cast, and… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
“No onlooker asked, Why fix a house when the airport authority might demolish it? Almost everyone here improved his hut when he was able,… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity,… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
“Like most scavengers, Sunil knew how he appeared to the people who frequented the airport: shoeless, unclean, pathetic. By winter’s end, he had defended… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
“Though Abdul had been afraid of ghosts as most Annawadi boys, these reports did no disturb him. Being terrorized by living people seemed to… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a… — Katherine Boo Copy Share
