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...separated mother in middle-class New Delhi, Shobha Batra struggled to make ends meet. She worked as a nurse, helped run the family's kindergarten and spent hours cleaning, cooking and looking after her six-year-old. She needed someone to help out, but worried that a man in the house could be dangerous and a woman might bring home boyfriends. Far better, and cheaper, she decided, to buy a child...
...child's mother. Babita's father, Parikshit, was happy to let her leave the family of eight's slum home for a few dollars and the offer of free clothes, food and board. The 10-year-old's mother, Janaki, was glad she would be going to school. "Batra said she would love my daughter like her own," says Janaki...
...Three months after Babita's departure, her 14-year-old brother, Shekhar, watched Batra pull up outside the house in an auto-rickshaw, walk Babita to a bench, sit her down and leave. "I thought Babita had come home for a visit," says Shekhar. But when he walked over, he found Babita slumped, barely conscious. The right side of her head was so swollen it hung over her ear. Her body was covered in nail scratches and bruises. Her thumb was broken. Shekhar ran to fetch his mother, and they rushed Babita to a hospital, where a doctor diagnosed...
Frankly, we're due. And that brings me to another batch of three: The Crash of the Millennium by Ravi Batra, who, as they say, has called five out of the past two recessions; Beat the Millennium Crash by Jake Bernstein; and Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Dutch tulip bulbs to junk bonds) by Edward Chancellor. The bubble theories in these books at the very least provide some counterweight to the sky's-the-limit authors...
...M.I.T.--Rivas, Gallagher, Batra; Harvard--None...