Slumdog Millionaire

'Slumdog'-I hate that word!! Why should anybody living in slums, any poor person be called dogs.Deregatory indeed! Having said this, I should give credit to the writer who wrote this novel and aptly named it Q & A. Vikas Swarup, the indian diplomat, the only Indian who won the Boeke prize ( South african award modelled on UK's Booker prize) for the book, did write the story good.He also won the Paris book fair's Reader's Prize.

His characterisation of the protogonist (the main character),Ram Mohammad Thomas was much better than the 'Jamal Malik' of Slumdog Millionaire.Of course, it is very difficult to picturize the words in a book....

I have been arrested. For winning a quiz show.

They came for me late last night, when even the stray dogs had gone off to sleep. They broke open my door, handcuffed me and marched me off to the waiting jeep with a flashing red light.

There was no hue and cry. Not one resident stirred from his hut. Only the old owl on the tamarind tree hooted at my arrest.

Arrests in Dharavi are as common as pickpockets on the local train. Not a day goes by without some hapless resident being taken away to the police station.


Dev Patel did act good in the lead role, and the main essence of the book was a lot intact in the movie, than the other books made into movies like 'Namesake' which was so badly made into a movie....