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Notes From A Real-Life Slumdog

In “Slumdog Millionaire”, Jamal breaks out from Dharavi, travels on train-tops to the tune of M.I.A.’s “Paper Plane”, scams tourists at the Taj Mahal, enters “Kaun Banega Crorepati” and at the end of this dream run reunites with his childhood heart-throb, Latika.
That’s great, except real life is nowhere close to that narration. Sudip Mazumdar, a [...]