In 2012, when Behind the Beautiful Forevers was published, India defined the poverty line as $14 per month in rural areas and $17 per month in urban areas.
Though India’s economy has been growing rapidly since 2001, thanks to increased industrialization and global trade, many Indian citizens still live in poverty and lack adequate educational opportunities, housing situations, and food. Since 2008, Boo has split her time between India and America as she continues to write for The New Yorker about issues of inequality and economic opportunity in a globalizing world.īoo’s reporting on the lives of residents of a Mumbai slum brings to light the conditions facing a large majority of urban citizens in India in the late 2000s. Boo spent three years living in the Annawadi slum and later turned her observations there into the award-winning book Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Boo married Sunil Khilnani, a Professor of Politics at King’s College, London and a scholar of Indian history, and soon became consumed with reporting the stories in India that continue to go unnoticed as India’s quickly growing economy transforms the face of the country. Boo also won a MacArthur Genius Grant in 2002, funding Boo’s efforts to live and work in underprivileged and under-reported communities. Over the course of her career, Boo has won many awards for her work in areas of social justice and public service, including a Pulitzer, a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and the 2002 Sidney Hillman Award.
In 2004, Boo officially joined the staff of The New Yorker after contributing articles for three years. From 1993 to 2003, she wrote for the Washington Post as an editor and investigative journalist. She honed her journalism skills working for Washington’s City Paper and the Washington Monthly. and graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University.
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