Part one: undercitizens
"To be poor in Annawadi, or in any Mumbai slum,was to be guilty of one thing or another"pXVii
Well of course he(Abdul) and his family were innocent...She had set herself on fire...."the one legged lady", as they called her...but what do I take from this preface ..The irony to be squatters and living illegally and poor,worse than what we call"poor"and accepting their plight and trying to rise above it......across from the most expensive,luxurious hotels.Unbelievable....The funny thing is the hierarchy and jealousy and lies of how a man can have his life ruined by lies due to jealousy is so similar to any neighborhood,any place in any country,the same pettiness,the same ...and how each family member respects and cares of each other but this very poor and shunned family..trying not only to survive but to rise above and out of the slums...the honor towards the elderly...the son finally decided to give himself up for his elder sickly father..and the police..the corrupt police...so what is different? from us?in Texas in today's world?
Undercitizens..."Everybody in Annawadi talks like this...oh,I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make me rich.It's vanity,nothing more.Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself,"What a navigator I am"And then the wind blows east"Abdul's father,Karam Husin
Undercitizens..think of that title and what it means?...This country so rich now with developing and circulating money yet holding one third of the planet's poor...ok it's very late and I have been teaching all day till 10pm at fort hood..but the one last thought..the drawing in the drawing blog called "in the gentle going hour", is in reference to waking up.. the way it is described in the book,and is beautifully described; waking in this awful place that really does not seem so awful in this very early quiet morning...much discretion goes to waking up in peace and quiet in such a large family all cramped in when all are asleep ... one more quote to help you visualize..."Outside even goats eyes were heavy with sleep. It was the moment of the intimate and the familial,before the great pursuit of the tiny market got underway"p4...good night...Ed I am tired
Well of course he(Abdul) and his family were innocent...She had set herself on fire...."the one legged lady", as they called her...but what do I take from this preface ..The irony to be squatters and living illegally and poor,worse than what we call"poor"and accepting their plight and trying to rise above it......across from the most expensive,luxurious hotels.Unbelievable....The funny thing is the hierarchy and jealousy and lies of how a man can have his life ruined by lies due to jealousy is so similar to any neighborhood,any place in any country,the same pettiness,the same ...and how each family member respects and cares of each other but this very poor and shunned family..trying not only to survive but to rise above and out of the slums...the honor towards the elderly...the son finally decided to give himself up for his elder sickly father..and the police..the corrupt police...so what is different? from us?in Texas in today's world?
Undercitizens..."Everybody in Annawadi talks like this...oh,I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make me rich.It's vanity,nothing more.Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself,"What a navigator I am"And then the wind blows east"Abdul's father,Karam Husin
Undercitizens..think of that title and what it means?...This country so rich now with developing and circulating money yet holding one third of the planet's poor...ok it's very late and I have been teaching all day till 10pm at fort hood..but the one last thought..the drawing in the drawing blog called "in the gentle going hour", is in reference to waking up.. the way it is described in the book,and is beautifully described; waking in this awful place that really does not seem so awful in this very early quiet morning...much discretion goes to waking up in peace and quiet in such a large family all cramped in when all are asleep ... one more quote to help you visualize..."Outside even goats eyes were heavy with sleep. It was the moment of the intimate and the familial,before the great pursuit of the tiny market got underway"p4...good night...Ed I am tired
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