Friday March 20, 2009
The Real 'Slumdog Millionaire'
Fiona Ehlers
Spiegel International
Hope for Bombay's Children
The film "Slumdog Millionaire," in which a poor Indian boy wins a quiz show, won eight Oscars. The country is home to a man with a similar story -- Harsh Nawathe, who became a millionaire in 2000 as a TV contestant. Today he is helping to educate the children of the slums.
Harshvardhan Nawathe is sitting in front of a small television set in his tiny apartment in the northern part of the city. It is a Sunday evening in early March, one week after the Oscar awards ceremony, and Nawathe is watching a talk show called "We the People.
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