Eighteen-year-old Ram has just got twelve questions correct on a TV quiz show to win a cool one billion rupees.
Q: So why is he sitting in a prison cell?
A: Because the producers have arrested him for cheating.
Q: How can a street-kid from a Mumbai slum know who Shakespeare was if he has never been to school?
Read this book and find out.
Following the order of the twelve questions on the show, Ram tells us which amazing episode in his life taught him the answer to the question. From orphanages to brothels, gangsters to beggar-masters, and into the homes of Bollywood's rich and famous, Slumdog Millionaire brims with the comedy, tragedy, joy and pathos of modern India.
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