Behind The Beautiful Forevers Flashcards
(33 cards)
“Everything around us
is roses”
“He had been working as hard as he could in
the stigmatized occupation he’d been born to”.
“I will put your
family in a trap”
“These Muslims taunted me
and set me on fire because I’m Hindu.”
“Abdul had never given
his future much thought”
“Eight thousand tons of
garbage that Mumbai was extruding daily.”
“Contractors modernizing the airport
dumped things in the lake”
“Policeman who
came for bribes”
“Corruption,
it’s all corruption”
Exploitation of the weak
by the less weak”
“Country where corruption
thieved a great deal of opportunity.”
“Only six of the slum’s three thousand
residents had permanent jobs”
“The biggest city of a country that holds
one-third of the planet’s poor”
“Blanket of
poverty”
“Hindu-Muslim
resentments”
“Animus towards the city’s Muslim minority
was of a … more violent standing”
corruption
was one of the
genuine opportunities
that remained.
“Sewage and
sickness looked like life”
“Where new india
and old India collided”
“Mumbai was a hive of hope and ambition…
a place of festering grievance and ambient envy.”
“Abdul… entered the world
in a pile of dirt by the Intercontinental hotel.”
“In captivity…
was the first long rest [Abdul had] ever had”
“suspended state between guilt
and innocence was his permanent condition.”
“I tried to keep the ice inside me from melting…
But now i’m just becoming dirty water.”
