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Rated Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 8/10

Very striking - journalism that reads like a novel. A few years in the lives of families living at the edge of subsistence in a slum in Mumbai, right behind the airport and luxury hotels that symbolize a rising global upper class. Boo, the author, mostly removes herself from the story and narrates from the perspectives of her protagonists as they deal with poverty, corruption, religious conflict and their efforts to carve out a space for themselves. Beautifully done.

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Published 2026-08-18 21:23 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere