“There is a contractor who assigns work to us. I am allowed to pick garbage from about five dumps in the Lajpat Nagar area”
India’s largest slum is built on the creative zeal of entrepreneurs who had no access to finance from banks. But things are changing now
“Eye-gouging only happens when the lazier slum-dwellers, who would rather beg than work, request the operation.”
The 'Slumdog' kids are leading schizoid lives. Where a billion brownies failed, Danny Boyle is winning. Why is it that some of us are still the white man’s burden?