Everybody Loves a Good Drought

Everybody Loves a Good Drought

Stories from India's Poorest Districts

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Genre:Writing & Editing Guides
Language : English
Published: November 22, 2017
Edition:7th
Paperback
ISBN13:9780140259841
ISBN10:0140259848
Pages:512
Dimensions:5.31 x 8.5 x 1.2 inches
Weight:399.73 g

About the Book

Acclaimed across the world, prescribed in over 100 universities and colleges, and included in part in The Century's Greatest Reportage (Ordfront, 2000), alongside the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Studs Terkel and John Reed, Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the established classic on rural poverty in India. Twenty years after publication, it remains unsurpassed in the scope and depth of reportage, providing an intimate view of the daily struggles of the poor and the efforts, often ludicrous, made to uplift them.

An illuminating introduction accompanying this twentieth-anniversary edition reveals, alarmingly, how a large section of India continues to suffer in the name of development so that a small percentage may prosper. Besides exposing chronic misgovernance, it is also a devastating comment on the media's failure to speak for the voiceless.