Next Stop, Squalor Is poverty tourism—”poorism,” they call it—exploration or exploitation? “It is a vision of urban hell. It is also one of India’s newest tourist attractions.†An interesting article in the Smithsonian Mag by John Lancaster
It’s quite thought provoking and fairly gory. The photographs are linked to further historical facts about each image. Worth a look.
Kiran Desai’s novel which won her the Booker Prize last year. I had heard about her winning of course, and I was intrigued by it as it’s set in the north-eastern Himalayas, at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga, which is very close to Darjeeling, where I went to school for seven years. See related, we […]
This was interesting.
Coen brother roll here, looking around after the last clip I found this on YouTube as well. Only Turturro could pull this off
An excellent short with Steve Buscemi