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katherine boo, we welcome you. this is her first book. winner of the pulitzer prize.t to anybody these days. >> i think not. where did the idea come from, from this story? >> i met my husband in 2001. he was born in delhi. so i was working on -- in the united states about how people get out of poverty. i finished my work in cutoff of louisiana or texas and go running to india. here was this country, it was prospering but 60% of the people lived in slums. how do you get out of poverty when you're born in the slums? that's a question that obsessed me. so suddenly i started reporting. >> i was thinking, even the word slum doesn't really do it justice. about how the people you write about are living when you describe it. >> people are living on top of or inside these homes that they've built themselves. it all sits on a vast lake of sewage and petrochemicals. people get malaria, nonetheless they get up every morning and do their best to make their way into the middle class. they know that the wealth of a country is out there. the slum is surrounded by luxury hotels. they'

please welcome katherine boo. (cheers and applause) miss boo, thank you so much for coming on. all right. you are an american. you write for "the new yorker", you used to writ for "the washington post". are you the recipient of the pulitzer praise and a macarthur genius grant, la di da, okay. genius grant person, what number am i thinking of? >> 86, you can buy that [bleep]. >> really? >> under the table money. >> you can buy genius grant. >> uh-huh, yeah. >> i have to get me one. are you also the author of a new book, behind the beautiful forevers. life, death and hope in a mumbai undercity. what is an undercity. >> it is a place that is increasingly hard to see these days, low income communities like those, like the slums in mumbai, lake many neighborhoods in our country. >> why can't we see them. >> because you are in a gated community. >> i am in my gated community. >> you have your tinted windows. >> right and i have sunglasses that have mirrors on the inside. i saw slumdog millionaire, okay s that what this is, is this slumdog millionaire. >> exactly there is no song and