Comments on: Slumdog Millionaire and What to Do About Global Poverty http://demockracy.com/slumdog-millionaire-and-what-to-do-about-global-poverty/ Wed, 02 May 2012 03:56:19 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: James Mutti, Contributing Editor http://demockracy.com/slumdog-millionaire-and-what-to-do-about-global-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-814 James Mutti, Contributing Editor Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:00:22 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=4079#comment-814 I just saw SM the other night on DVD and have been thinking about it. Here is another very interesting article about Rubina Ali (the young Latika and a real life slum dweller) being offered for sale by her father. The reader comments are quite interesting and get at the point of my article. http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/271325/Slumdog-Millionaire-star-Rubina-Ali-who-played-Latika-is-offered-for-sale-by-dad-Rafiq-Qureshi-to-the-News-of-the-Worlds-Fake-Sheikh.html I just saw SM the other night on DVD and have been thinking about it. Here is another very interesting article about Rubina Ali (the young Latika and a real life slum dweller) being offered for sale by her father. The reader comments are quite interesting and get at the point of my article.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/271325/Slumdog-Millionaire-star-Rubina-Ali-who-played-Latika-is-offered-for-sale-by-dad-Rafiq-Qureshi-to-the-News-of-the-Worlds-Fake-Sheikh.html

]]> By: James Mutti, Contributing Editor http://demockracy.com/slumdog-millionaire-and-what-to-do-about-global-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-697 James Mutti, Contributing Editor Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:15:30 +0000 http://demockracy.com/?p=4079#comment-697 Here is one of the more interesting responses to SM that shows the Indian elite playing victim to the evil West, nitpicking fthe film's more unbelievable elements, and taking the Oscars too seriously, while also making some important points - particularly that the film pretends that India's poor have the chance to be rich. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main41.asp?filename=hub070309the_missionary.asp Here is one of the more interesting responses to SM that shows the Indian elite playing victim to the evil West, nitpicking fthe film’s more unbelievable elements, and taking the Oscars too seriously, while also making some important points – particularly that the film pretends that India’s poor have the chance to be rich.

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main41.asp?filename=hub070309the_missionary.asp

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