In the videos India is depicted as a quickly advancing technological country, with the new airport playing an important role in aiding significantly to all of the advancements. The second video touches on a few aspects in which Mumbai is failing in, but overall the videos give a sense of pride for all of India's advancements so far, along with many hopes/plans for the future. The prologue in Behind the beautiful forevers sets a scene of poverty stricken slums, and a turmoil with law enforcement. I think the author chose to write a novel instead of a non-fiction account of her observations due to her inability to tie the audience in as emotionally with just stating journalistic based accounts. The advantage of this choice is that it entices
