Don't Correct Me, You Don't Have Any

As A Reporter, You Know The Tropes Of How Stories On Poverty Work In Any Country. A Reporter Will Go To An Ngo And Say, "tell Me About The Good Work That You're Doing And Introduce Me To The Poor People Who Represent The Kind Of Help You Give." It Serves To Streamline The Storytelling, But It Gives You A Lopsided Cosmos In Which Almost Every Poor Person You Read About Is Involved With A Ngo Helping Him. Our Understanding Of Poverty And How People Escape From Poverty, In Any Country, Is Quite Distorted.

It Seemed To Him That In Annawadi, Fortunes Derived Not Just From What People Did, Or How Well They Did It, But From The Accidents And Catastrophes They Dodged. A Decent Life Was The Train That Hadn’t Hit You, The Slumlord You Hadn’t Offended, The Malaria You Hadn’t Caught.

.. Becoming Attached To A Country Involves Pressing, Uncomfortable Questions About Justice And Opportunity For Its Least Powerful Citizens.

I've Said It Before And I'll Say It Again: Never Trust Anyone Who Tells You How People Come To Trust Them.

I'm Useless When I Meet Writers I Love - I Go Slack-jawed And Stupid With Awe.