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Thinking Allowed: Hostility to tax; Mumbai slums

20/06/2012

Hostility to tax; Mumbai slums

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Hostility to tax; Mumbai slums

A study of the slums of Mumbai. Also, the rights and wrongs of taxation.

Laurie Taylor hears about the makeshift slums of Mumbai, a new book explores lives untouched by increasing Indian prosperity, and why are some people morally opposed to taxation?

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near Mumbai's international airport. The Pulitzer prize winning writer, Katherine Boo, spent 4 years hearing the stories of the slum dwellers who stand little chance of joining the 'new' Indian middle class. She talks to Laurie Taylor about her new book "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum". Also, the sociologist, Jeff Kidder, highlights new research which analyses why so many Americans are morally opposed to taxation. They're joined by British sociologist, Peter Taylor Gooby, who's researched British attitudes to tax.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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