Who Doesn't Want to Be a Millionaire?

• Position: Popular television show in India

In the desperate Bombay slum of Geeta Nagar, where there are only four toilets for every thousand residents, people rush home at 9 p.m. each night to watch the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

India, a poor country where the average person would have to work 2,325 years to become a millionaire, has become obsessed with the game show created in Britain and now exported to 31 nations. Though only about one third of...