- Update 2/6/09 - Joseph D'Souza, the international president of the Dalit Freedom Network, applauds the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" saying,
I have worked with the disenfranchised and marginalised for most of my life. I’m a citizen of India who is proud of my country’s progress in recent years, yet I must point out the obvious again. The movie is not about selling the poverty of India, as a British newspaper alleged (“Shocked by Slumdog’s poverty porn”). Instead, it is the story about the real India of the majority, where children become the primary victims of all that is dysfunctional in society (as The Guardian pointed out).
- (Original post) - Mafia gangs deliberately cripple children for begging profit. This is truly unspeakable. Click here. (HT: Drudge). The new movie, Slumdog Millionaire, depicts some of this but doesn't go far enough.