Slumdog Millionaire Lit Circle "Connector"

Many children in India are torn away from their families due to big mobs that attack small villages and light them on fire. Many families are burned to death and some are just beatin to death.
There was a christian couple living in India that had been attacked by a large mob of anti-Christian extremists that brutally attacked two Gospel for Asia-supported missionaries in Himachal Pradesh, India, on Saturday, March 14. After stripping them naked and beating Murari Jay and Atul Rajesh, the vicious group burned all their belongings and then had the missionaries arrested.
The mob of about 30 people barged into the place where Murari and Atul were staying. Humiliating the missionaries, the group tore the men's clothes off and beat them. Murari sustained severe injuries to his back after mob members repeatedly kicked him, and Atul suffered acute head trauma. Other members of the mob set fire to everything the missionaries owned.
This kind of stuff is common in India when I was reading this book I kept thinking to my self how could this happen in our generation why dont people try to stop this behaviour?

Novel research

Vikas Swarup born and brought up in Allahabad, Swarup, an avid quizzer since his college days,was sitting in a resturant reading a article on how many east indian boys living in the slum of Asia that have never went to school and never read a newspaper in their life, he wanted to show that knowledge is not the preserve of the educated elite and that even a 'street-kid' can possess the wisdom to win a quiz show.
Vikas Swarup has lived in India most of his life where there are many fights and he could see how many families are parted from one another, and how many boy's are left on their own to surrender for themsselves no one to help them.


http://www.vikasswarup.net/