Virginia Hoyt asked this question about Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity:
My question is actually one the author herself asked in the Author's Note; on page 248, she queries "After all, there are more poor people than rich people in the world's Mumbais. ... Why don't more of our unequal societies implode?"
Reet It does, and it will. Look at Rome.
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