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Rubina Ali, the 9-year old actress who played the young Latika in Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire, will soon publish her autobiography under UK’s Transworld Publishers and Random House Children’s Books. Both publishing houses are divisions of Random House Group Ltd. Her book will detail her impoverished childhood, as well as her recently [...]

Slumdog Millionaire, the film that bagged eight Oscars in 2009 is indebted to the slums of Mumbai, India. After grossing an approximate profit of $ 300 million worldwide, the filmmakers are now doing some charity work as well. A donation of $ 747000 is donated to Plan, the international institution that works for the welfare of children and has been [...]

After the Oscar Awards ceremony, the A-list crowd moved on for a long night of expensive celebration and public back-slapping. Some 9000 miles away, another kind of celebration was taking place in a tiny, pink shack in the Dharavi slums of Mumbai. Munni Qureshi, watched the Academy Awards as her three other children slept on the floor next to her and [...]