Quotes by : Katherine Boo

In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a....

In places where government priorities and market imperatives create a world so capricious that to help....

Like most young Annawadians, the girls considered the caste obsession of their elders to be an irrelevant....

Food wasn’t one of the amenities at Cooper, the five-hundred-bed hospital on which millions of poor....

As every slumdweller knew, there were three main ways out of poverty: finding an entrepreneurial niche,....

But something he'd come to realize on the roof, leaning out, thinking about what would happen if he leaned....

Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city....

As Abdul and his family had already learned, the police station was not a place where victimhood was....

Though Abdul had been as afraid of ghosts as most Annawadi boys, these reports did not disturb him. Being....

The municipality sent water through six Annawadi faucets for ninety minutes in the morning and ninety....