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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available…
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But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader…
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My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.Very little journalism is world changing. But if change…
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Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'.…
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A decent life was the train that hadn’t hit you, the slumlord you hadn’t offended, the malaria you hadn’t caught
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In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
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Don't correct me, you don't have any rights over me." "What kind of life is this? So I sit at home ,…
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Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were…
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I was spending a lot of time in Mumbai after I met my husband, who is Indian, and while parts of the…
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...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
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It seemed to him that in Annawadi, fortunes derived not just from what people did, or how well they did it, but…
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.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens.
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A scar left behind by a woman typically goes forever.
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