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Quotation of the Day for April 21, 2012"What was unfolding in Mumbai was unfolding elsewhere, too. In the age of global market capitalism, hopes and grievances were narrowly conceived, which blunted a sense of common predicament. Poor people didn't unite, they competed ferociously amongst themselves for gains as slender as they were provisional. And this undercity strife created only the faintest ripple in the fabric of the society at large. The gates of the rich, occasionally rattled, remained unbreached. The politicians held forth on the middle class. The poor took down one another, and the world's great, unequal cities soldiered on in relative peace." - Katherine Boo, from her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on 4 years of research into the lives of Mumbai slum-dwellers. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Apr. 19, 2012  |
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