Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:13:04 +0530 From: Savia Rodrigues <[email protected]>
When watching Slumdog Millionaire, there was one thing a lot of people did not understand. In the movie the kids who were from the slums became tour guides and took white people around on tours. Everyone had the same question, how did these kids know English. If they are from the slums how can they pick up one of the most difficult languages in the world? Well here is a video of a kid from the slums who also happens to be selling peacock feathers and check out how many languages he knows..... http://www.reviewgoa.com/?p=1192 Mario adds: Good point, Savia. These kids are smart - just imagine what they have to deal with on a daily basis, just to survive. The movie provided a glimpse of what the monsoons must be like for them. Given half a chance they can do as well as anyone else as my post on another real life "slumdog" showed: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-March/174563.html If you take a closer look at the slums in Bandra and Mahim these days you will see many with second stories now, some with sattelite dishes and TVs, some with refrigerators and PCs, using bootlegged electricity. I saw kids in Catholic school uniforms who live there.
