Poor Little Rich Slum Quotes

“But what if I reach out for that dream and find that even what I have has slipped through my fingers? At the end of the tour we are left wondering, is less really more? *”
― Rashmi Bansal, Poor Little Rich Slum

“Because knowledge does not need an academic greenhouse. It can bloom, anywhere.”
― Rashmi Bansal, Poor Little Rich Slum

“Don’t you know They’re talkin’ ’bout a revolution It sounds like a whisper... While they’re standing in the welfare lines Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation Wasting time in the unemployment lines Sitting around waiting for a promotion... – Tracy Chapman Talkin’ ‘bout a Revolution”
― Rashmi Bansal, Poor Little Rich Slum

“It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind… And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong! – John Godfrey Saxe”
― Rashmi Bansal, Poor Little Rich Slum

“Now, here’s the ‘sample flat’. Each house measures 300 sq ft. This is the living room – velvet sofa, flat-screen TV and modern art on the wall. Come, see the modular kitchen, isn’t it nice? Here is your bedroom, with a built-in cupboard. Do you like the bedspread? Come, see your study room with computer (LCD monitor). Itna sab kuch 300 sq ft mein? This is a work of science fiction. The fiction of making promises. The science of never keeping them.”
― Rashmi Bansal, Poor Little Rich Slum

“In Dharavi, an address is meaningless. Any place is only known by its proximity to another place.”
― Rashmi Bansal, Poor Little Rich Slum