Her plausible rebuttal had me wondering what its Hindi or Marathi original might have been.įor Katherine Boo, working on this intimate account of life in Annawadi was slow, uncertain and painful in a variety of ways. Shall I strip naked and dance for you now?'" This is how Asha, an ambitious woman who has set her sights on being slumlord in Annawadi, a large slum close to Sahar International Airport in Mumbai, replies to men who'd take advantage of her for her "large breasts and her small, drunken husband". Her first book "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity" was published in 2012."'Tell me, bastard. For the last decade, she has divided her time between the United States and India, the birthplace of her husband, Sunil Khilnani. Over the years, her reporting from disadvantaged communities has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur “Genius” grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. She learned to report at the alternative weekly, Washington City Paper, after which she worked as a writer and co-editor of The Washington Monthly magazine. Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. Her first book "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity" was published in 2012.
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