With the poignant, tugging-at-the-heartstring frames et al. What this book does instead, is shift the focus of Asia’s largest slum, on the real people who choose to rise above the ‘victim syndrome’ and shine in a space that is typically, the last place one would look for towering enterprise or dreams being realised.

Poor Little Rich Slum, Rashmi Bansal, Deepak Gandhi, Westland, Rs 250. Available at leading bookstores.