This is one book I'm definitely buying. Arvind Adiga was a correspondent for Time Magazine, and he writes a fable that could possibly come true in the 'booming, shining' India we can't get out of our heads.
A few quotes from an interview of his by Arthur J. Pais,
1. The shameless way wealth is flaunted [in India] is extraordinary. Poor people [see] the money the very rich have.
2. The Indian economy is booming but the money was [is] not really getting down to the poor and the difference in the world between the rich and the poor was phenomenal.
3. To say that the divide between the rich and the poor, and the invisibility of the poor is an issue that has been `dealt with' is to trivialise its profound and perpetual importance. The problem is omnipresent, its manifestations keep changing
And most importantly and prophetically, perhaps:
4. ...in India, amidst the hoopla and hype of the economic boom, the poor are more invisible than ever before, and the dangers of ignoring them are greater than ever before: The proof of this is in the resurgent Naxalite, armed rebellion in the heart of India, where communist guerrillas, fighting in the name of the poor, are waging a brutal war against the state.
Read the full interview here.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/may/02inter1.htm
Friday, May 02, 2008
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