Quotes by : Katherine Boo

In the West, and among some in the Indian elite, this word, corruption, had purely negative connotations;....

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

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world....

It is easy, from a safe distance, to overlook the fact that in undercities governed by corruption, where....

At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was....

When I'm engaged in a story my health is not a big deal, but when I'm not doing anything, if you sit....

Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when....

He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit,....

One of his private vanities was that all the garbage sorting had endowed his hands with killing strength—that....

.. becoming attached to a country involves pressing, uncomfortable questions about justice and opportunity....