Socio-economic Inequality in Mumbai Essay

Title of Work – BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS by Boo, Katherine. Genre – Narrative, Non-fiction Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity a narrative, non-fiction written by The Pulitzer Prize Winner - Katherine Boo. This book was published in the year 2012 and captured the lives of people in a Mumbai slum – Annawadi from 2007 to 2011. The slum was settled in 1991 by laborers brought from southern Indian state Tamil Nadu to repair a runway at the international airport. When they decided to stay near the airport, they cleared wet, snake-filled, an uninhabited small swamp area across the street from the international terminal and Annawadi – the land of annas, born. The stark contrast between the lifestyle of…

being allowed to study up-stream approaches as to why such problems exist. If there were not enough hurdles, there wouldn’t be as many jobs. The more jobs there are the less people will be in poverty and therefore less inequality. Also, poverty tourism is currently a booming business worldwide and Dharavi is one of the top areas that people are eager to see. “The phenomenon slum tourism responds to the increasing quest for real and authentic experiences by marketing their tours as reality…

and those in present day. Aspects of religion, labor, location, and agriculture have all undergone significant changes in the cities because of the influence and role of the slums. Secondly, Davis focuses on neoliberalism’s responsibility for such change and informality. Davis argues the aforementioned material through a dystopian point of view, implying that slums bring about negative impacts in society’s attempt for future growth and prosperity. Similarly, the film, Sleep Dealer, explores…

In Adiga’s story “Last Christmas in Bandra,” similarly placed in the pre-liberalised India, the compassionate judge trusts the words of the poor criminals produced before him much more than the police version. Such compassion from a judge or a lowly quack is unheard of in the world of The White Tiger or Last Man in Tower. No character is capable of kindness and mercy in the liberalised world of Balram or in the commercial world of Mumbai, where even the virtuous Masterji is incapable of showing…

With the passage of time, Gandhi37 went on adding on economic and sociological content to the rather moralistic conception of trusteeship. He stated that in case, the rich would not become willing trustees, satyagrah was to be resorted to, against the holder of wealth. In 1938, he said, “A trustee has no heir but the public.”38 This implies that the community or the state has also a right in the prosperity of the moneyed classes. He wanted that the rich should become trustees of their surplus…

According to the World Bank, as of 2011, the Indian economy is nominally worth US$1.848 trillion; it is the tenth-largest economy by market exchange rates, and is, at US$4.457 trillion, the third-largest by purchasing power parity, or PPP. With its average annual GDP growth rate of 5.8% over the past two decades, and reaching 6.1% during 2011–12, India is one of the world's fastest-growing economies. However, the country ranks 140th in the world in nominal GDP per capita and 129th in GDP per…