Month: January 2016

Through out the review, Jan Breman, pushes forward the idea that Boo, the author of “The Beautiful Forevers”, is trying to illustrate the huge inequalities that Mumbai holds for the people living in the “under city”.

• We are introduced to Asha and her husband. We are told that Asha thinks that her husband has gone “batty and pious” as he has lost the want to be the slum lord. Asha sees an opportunity.
• Asha manages to aquire the “Slum Lord” position as “The Corporator”, the main political figure in the Shiv Sena party, believed that she could handle the problems Annawadi had to offer, as well as, being able to meet the demands that the Shiv Sena party needed to push forward their campaign.
• Asha realizes that being slum lord is a profitable position as she can feed of others “hopes and ambitions”. Through this she forms an opinion that all politics is corrupt.
• We are then put through one of Asha’s ‘average’ day’s. Through certain actions, such as regreting the fact that she helped a woman secure a temp-job for free and rejecting a mans propsal of giving him a loan for a new heart valve, we she that Asha has now learnt to value money and power over humility and kindness.