Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Dec 2025 on The Ezra Klein Show.
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“And then finally, a book called Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Catherine Boo. She spent years in Anawati. It's an informal urban settlement, sometimes known as a slum near the Mumbai airport. And it just paints a very vivid picture of what life is like in poverty.”
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