I've Said It Before And I'll Say

I've Said It Before And I'll Say It Again: Never Trust Anyone Who Tells You How People Come To Trust Them.

What You Don't Want Is Always Going To Be With You What You Want Is Never Going To Be With You Where You Don't Want To Go, You Have To Go And The Moment You Think You're Going To Live More, You're Going To Die

One Thing That Was Very Clear To Me Is That The Young People In A Place Like Annawadi Aren't Tripping On Caste The Way Their Parents Are. They Know Their Parents Have These Old Views.

One Chronicler Writes Of An Area Of India During The End Of The 20th Century: Almost No-one In This Slum Was Poor By Indian Benchmarks. ... True, A Few Residents Trapped Rats And Frogs And Fried Them For Dinner. A Few Ate The Scrub Grass At The Sewage Lake Edge. And These Individuals, Miserable Souls, Thereby Made An Inestimable Contribution To Their Neighbors. They Gave Those Slum Dwellers Who Didn't Fry Rats And Eat Weeds A Sense Of Their Upward Mobility.

It Seemed To Him That In Annawadi, Fortunes Derived Not Just From What People Did, Or How Well They Did It, But From The Accidents And Catastrophes They Dodged. A Decent Life Was The Train That Hadn’t Hit You, The Slumlord You Hadn’t Offended, The Malaria You Hadn’t Caught.