"In Bangalore, India, five young women fight to save their homes, which are really only shacks and lean-tos, in a slum named "Heaven," which the city wants to bulldoze in order to accommodate its growing tech industry"--.
Balram Halwai is educated in the art of corruption when he is hired as the driver for the wealthiest man in his village in India, by witnessing his employers bribe and barter through his rear view mirror.
Nineteen-year-old Anjali Bose must face the challenges of betrayal, violence, and corruption after fleeing her country home and an arranged marriage to take up residence in a decaying mansion in Bangladore with her friend, an ex-patriate American teacher.
Balram Halwai is educated in the art of corruption when he is hired as the driver for the wealthiest man in his village in India, by witnessing his employers bribe and barter through his rear view mirror.