In the years leading up to the financial crisis of 2008–09, the sleek and growing international airport of Mumbai looked across two hundred yards of elegant landscaping at a concrete wall plastered with ads for floor tiles that promised (over and over again) to be “beautiful forever.” The advertisements addressed a rising middle class in one of the world’s fastest-growi (...)
December 21, 2012
Books
Two Years in ‘Slumbai’
'Behind the Beautiful Forevers'
Behind the Beautiful ForeversLife, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine BooRandom House, $27, 256 pp.
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