Slumdog wags its tale

Slumdog Millionaire, the underdog, "almost gone to DVD" movie sweeped the Oscars yesterday.
I won't go into the usual fawning that most articles give it since this movie too fits into a pattern.
That of the Westerner's obsession with India's squalor and poverty.

To support my theory, go watch/read any of the following which have achieved acclaim in the West while not claiming those heights inside of India.

• Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray
• Salaam Bombay by Mira Nair
• Shantaram by Gregory Roberts - English fiction novel (parts of it use crazy English)
  
• White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, 2008 Booker Prize - English fiction novel (atrocious English)
  

There is also an interesting take on this from a Chinese perspective and I tend to agree with the author's views there when he comments on an outsider's view of one's own country.