TY - BOOK AU - Boo,Katherine TI - Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death and hope in a Mumbai slum SN - 9781846274510 (pbk.) : AV - HV4140.M86 U1 - 305.5690954792 23 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Portobello Books KW - Urban poor KW - India KW - Bombay KW - Society KW - ukslc KW - Bombay (India) KW - Social conditions KW - 21st century N1 - Originally published: 2012 N2 - Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. As Boo gets to know those who dwell at Mumbai's margins, she evokes an extraordinarily vivid and vigorous group of individuals flourishing against the odds amid the complications, corruptions and gross inequalities of the new India ER -