Mumbai slum dwellers take pride in "Slumdog" Oscars success

A world away from the glitz of the Oscars, residents of Dharavi slum in Mumbai hope the drama "Slumdog Millionaire will draw attention to their plight.

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[utubemysterygame]

I hope it brings them some good attention.

[squ34ky]

Indians have this pathetic need for validation from the Western world. People in India have forgotten that this is a British film and are celebrating as though some Bollywood home production has won at the Oscars.

[jmtdt]

In any case, my family history is proof enough that PEOPLE are responsible for their condition and can improve it through their own effort. Why do I care about people who haven't done something about their own living conditions instead of going to school and getting a good job? We are not a communist country (Like CHINA).

My well-earned income is not diffused into greedy lazy hands and never will be.

[jmtdt]

"the criterion used was monthly per capita consumption expenditure below Rs. 356.35 for rural areas and Rs. 538.60 for urban areas" - Where are you getting this 2000 calories thing from?

[by78]

1) World Bank: Global Absolute Poverty Line = $1.25/day (Purchasing Power Parity)

2) Number of Indians living below the Global Absolute Poverty Line = 456 million, and increase from 421 million in 1981.

3) Indian government poverty line is defined as the amount of money necessary for nutrition intake of 2000 calories a day.

So, tell me, does it smell like somebody is running by playing with numbers?

[jmtdt]

That must be news to Indians!

1977-78 -51.3

1983 -44.5

1987-88  -38.9

1993-94 -36.0

1999-00 -26.9

2004-05 -27.5

(year vs. poverty rate)

[by78]

Wait a minute... My comment was filled with genuine admiration. You are such a cynic. Is it not the Indians who make virtue out of poverty? Poor = moral, right? Isn't that the standard line of the Indian government?

[jmtdt]

Lol, I've seen you before. Western Sinophile and Indophobe. Fyi I live in a two-story house in Jalandhar, Punjab with running water and cable TV. Two generations ago my paternal grandparents lived in poverty. I suppose you are overlooking that India has the 4th highest GDP in the world (at parity) and that China and India are NOT ENEMIES! Hu Jintao supports India's bid for a UNSC seat and one war in 1962 does not make us enemies. Kind of like how Germany is part of the EU now even after WWII.

[by78]

Ahhhhh, the vast slums of India, the PRIDE of SHINING INDIA!

[komalthakur1310]

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[paulkrist44]

Please let us stop this gloat which looks absurd. The whole wold, mankind, or much of it, has watched it both in theatres or from pirated records. The conscience of mankind will be redeemed not by this gloat which is probably contrived by media. I mean, resources must be mobilized and slum conditions all over India made tolerably human through a global effort on war footing - if our "democratic" govt. will not do this under whatever pleas.

[balumuthu]

lsjtifo , can you please let us have the contact info for the NGO, if you mean an EXISTING one, so that I can moot the idea with volunteering of my services for the cause in some suitable manner? I am afraid there is no such existing NGO which has that calibre of men with such lofty ambitions to change things for the better for the wretched in slums, let alone access to expert and monetary resources, let alone. Probably,need for a genuine NGO. for this mission to avoid misuse by missionaries.