Behind the Beautiful Forevers website

http://www.behindthebeautifulforevers.com/author/

Click the link above to go to the author's website for the book. Worth a browse.

Go to the National Geographic website to view a short video on a slum in Mumbai:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/05/dharavi-mumbai-slum/dharavi-video-interactive

To begin, click  Launch Presentation

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Listen to Various People Discuss the Book

Lots of discussions on Behind the Beautiful Forevers:

NPR

Reader's Review - Diane Rehm Show (51 minutes):  https://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-09-18/readers-review-behind-beautiful-forevers-katherine-boo

Beautiful Forevers: Surviving Slum Life in Mumbai (7 min):  http://www.npr.org/2012/02/06/146463567/mumbai-slum-exists-behind-the-beautiful-forevers

Finding Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Slum (13 min):  http://www.npr.org/2012/11/16/165272652/finding-life-death-and-hope-in-a-mumbai-slum

Slate Podcast

Slate Audio Book Club: Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers (48 min). Episode 71, January 2013.  Search in your favourite podcast player.

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This National Geographic picture shows a child in the slums climbing on a pipe that takes clean water to the wealthy suburbs.