Tribes' life are hard and difficult but slummers’ life in the slums are more complicated.

When you see the word slums you'll automatically think about Slumdog Millionaire which was just released in the theater a couple months ago. I'd only realize and understand how a slum was after watching the film. As you'd see in the film, the slums in Mumbai, India were terrily set up. Slummers have to sleep under broken zincs, they sleep in a wet condition too.

I wonder if you've heard about it before, like slummers in India, they have to go and beg and steal and rob and cheat and borrow to get food to survive. They can't eat well because they are too poor to buy food. A little girl have to cover her eyes pretend to be a blind person and carry a baby and then go in the street and start crying, saying that she has been starving for some days, please give her some money. After the little girl got her money, she go back and this time is her mother's turn, carries the same baby and go out and beg again. Next round’s her father, brother and sister.

You see, they are extremely broke and you can see such trick in India all the time, in some places of course. Then if you sympathy for the slummers and give money to ONE of them, you're certainly in trouble, because once they got your money, they'll tell other slummers and all of them in dozens will come to get money from you. And the only one way to escape is your hand go to your pocket and grab all your coins then throw them into the sky, so that you can ran away from them.

Life in the slums are chaos. Fighting causes many deaths and most of their corpse laying beside in the street, people cross the corpse, floating on the sea and flies annoying them. Really tough.

Paper came out of this yesterday,
Dad of 'Slumdog' girl tried to sell her

"The father of Rubina Ali reportedly planned to sell the nine-year-old to escape poverty.

The News Of The World alleged that Rafiq Qureshi demanded £200,000 for the young Slumdog Millionaire star's adoption when reporters posed as a wealthy family from Dubai.

"I have to consider what's best for me, my family and Rubina's future," Qureshi, 36, is quoted as saying, before his brother added that the child's new-found stardom warranted extra cash. Ali found fame playing the youngest version of the character Latika in the Oscar-winning rags to riches film." --- this article is taken from Digital Spy

I heard the news on the radio this morning as well. Discussing why the father wants to do so, is he doing right? Because if the father really want to give the best for Rubina's future, he'd just give her to them without receiving any reward. Obviously, his second purpose is aiming at the money. But this can't exactly say he's wrong OR right, depends on how do you think about it.

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yeah it sucks
in india the culture is really different
when the daughter is about 14 or 16, they usually marry them off and recieve a dowry (money to wife's family).
I guess he's trying to take advantage of the fact that his daughter got such a mainstream role and he knows no dowry can be worth as much as the price of herself. I'm not really sure

I listen to mostly chinese music. Either that or i listen to korean. There aren't enough ballads in english music, and i think i'm more of a vocal, love song type of person, cus i sing.
» Alam on 2009-04-20 01:50:16

hmm... well the thinking of these poor people is to have more children so that they would be better off when they r older. more children means more money coming in during their retirement so they don't mind suffering financially at the beginning.
» renaye on 2009-04-20 04:24:52

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