Inspirations
The author has said that he was inspired by the Hole in the Wall project which installed a computer in a Delhi slum. Young children taught themselves about the use of computers without intervention from the experimenters.
Another inspiration for Swarup was the cheating scandal involving Major Charles Ingram after he had won the top prize on the U.K. version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? "If a British army major can be accused of cheating, then an ignorant tiffin boy from the world's biggest slum can definitely be accused of cheating," said Swarup.
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