Katherine Boo
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a MacArthur Fellow
Katherine Boo, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a MacArthur Fellow, spent three years documenting the lives of people in the “undercity” of Annawadi, a squalid and overcrowded migrant settlement of some 3,000 people squatting since 1991 on a half-acre of land owned by the Sahar International Airport in Mumbai.
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Mon, 02/13/2012 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Life, Death & Hope In A Mumbai Undercity
Katherine Boo
Katherine Boo, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a MacArthur Fellow, spent three years documenting the lives of people in the “undercity” of Annawadi, a squalid and overcrowded migrant settlement of some 3,000 people squatting since 1991 on a half-acre of land owned by the Sahar International Airport in Mumbai. Read More ››