Comments on: Slumdog as aesthetic http://kafila.org/2009/02/26/slumdog-as-aesthetic/ media | politics | dissent Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:48:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Shashwati http://kafila.org/2009/02/26/slumdog-as-aesthetic/#comment-4947 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:05:23 +0000 http://kafila.org/?p=2115#comment-4947 Thanks for writing that.

Banno, you might be interested in reading this ethnography about slum clearance during the emergency and a resettlement colony in the outskirts of Delhi (now part of the metro area) by Emmo Tarlo called Unsettling Memories.

]]> By: Anant S http://kafila.org/2009/02/26/slumdog-as-aesthetic/#comment-4943 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:54:02 +0000 http://kafila.org/?p=2115#comment-4943 Beautifully expressed.

Agree completely – More than just ‘poverty’ as a concept though, its a large section of people that are rendered invisible.

]]> By: Banno http://kafila.org/2009/02/26/slumdog-as-aesthetic/#comment-4936 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:47:48 +0000 http://kafila.org/?p=2115#comment-4936 Couldn’t agree with you more. It is sad that we need people from outside to show us our own cities.

Strangely, last year, I was asked to do some research on the people living near the Yamuna for a CBC documentary. I landed up in Delhi to find the city clear of slums. And followed them to Bawana.

It frightened me, this cleansing, and came back glad in a facetious way of the slums or bastis as you more appropriately call them, still being visible in Mumbai.

]]> By: Bollywood and hollywood - Movie reviews, News, gossip » Slumdog as aesthetic http://kafila.org/2009/02/26/slumdog-as-aesthetic/#comment-4934 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:48:17 +0000 http://kafila.org/?p=2115#comment-4934 [...] Original post by Kafila [...]

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