Katherine Boo reveals how she got to know the inhabitants of the Annawadi slum who populate her book Behind the Beautiful Forevers
A new definition of poverty set out in a report shows the percentage of Indians living in abject poverty as falling.
Katherine Boo's reporting has won multiple awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. Her 2003 New Yorker story "The Marriage Cure" was honored as the year's best magazine feature. Boo speaks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden.
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