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...global imagination after the triumph of this film, which dwells crudely on the country's poverty. The outside world's supposed interest in seeing "the ugliness behind [India's] glittering façade" is akin to the sadistic and hypocritical concern of the game-show host for Jamal, our slum-residing protagonist, while rudely referring to him as a call-center chai wallah; the objective is to humiliate. Reality exists at many levels. Just look at your skin under a microscope if you want to see filth and ugliness. Neelam Sridhar, Secunderabad, India...
...with-one-stone approach to drug control focuses on changing the economic and social conditions in areas susceptible to drugs and drug-related crime, which will in turn provide a long-term solution to the drug epidemic. The approach includes social reintegration of addicts and dealers, firmer legislation against slum real-estate lords who allow illicit activity to continue on their grounds, and the general transformation of the "urban wastelands" that have become breeding grounds for the drug market. Along with trying to motivate UN member states into action on this initiative, the paper is a veiled effort to silence...
...their involvement with the movie, [they] cannot be held to ransom if the children are unable to make it in their lives." Almost everything, says Roy, depends on an individual child and how he or she matures after the spotlight shines elsewhere. The problems begin almost immediately. "When a slum child becomes famous and comes into money," says Roy, "all sorts of relatives start coming out of the woodwork and laying claims on the money and alleging all sorts of things." To that end, the Salaam Baalak Trust tries to ensure that resources and efforts are spent on education...
...given to the children when they complete their studies. The producers have also arranged for a rickshaw to take the children to a nonprofit English-language school, Asheema, for the next eight years, just to make sure they attend. Already there are signs of new affluence in the kids' slum dwellings. Rubiana's house was reportedly fitted with a 32-in. LCD TV screen and a new gas stove...
...heartwarming as the story of Rubiana and Azhar may turn out to be, it must be balanced against the heartbreak of so many other slum kids from Mumbai and the immensity of the problem they represent. According to India's most recent census, the country has 115 million kids out of school. Many millions of them, it can be inferred, make their lives in the teeming and desperate streets. And they have no Hollywood protectors to help them...