Everybody Loves a Good Drought

Everybody Loves a Good Drought  (English, Paperback, unknown)

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    • Language: English
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Publisher: Penguin Random House India
    • Genre: Social Science
    • ISBN: 9780140259841, 0140259848
    • Pages: 224
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    The human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer from tuberculosis gets overlooked. In this thoroughly researched study of the poorest of the poor, we get to see how they manage, what sustains them, and the efforts, often ludicrous, to do something for them. The people who figure in this book typify the lives and aspirations of a large section of Indian society, and their stories present us with the true face of development.

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    • Palagummi Sainath is founder-editor of the People's Archive of Rural India (PARI). He has been a journalist and reporter for 42 years, covering rural India full time for thirty of those. With an MA in History from JNU, Sainath joined the United News of India in 1980. In 1982, he became foreign editor of The Daily and deputy chief editor of the weekly Blitz in Mumbai. In 1993, he left Blitz to work full-time on reporting rural poverty. He was rural affairs editor of The Hindu from 2004 to 2014. Sainath has won over 60 national and international reporting awards and fellowships. These include the Fukuoka Grand Prize 2021, the World Media Summit award 2014, the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2007, Amnesty International's Global Human Rights Reporting Prize and the Ramnath Goenka Journalist of the Year award. He has been teaching journalism at the Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, for three decades, and also at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, since 2000. He was McGraw Professor of Writing in Princeton in 2012. In December 2014, Sainath launched PARI. Publishing in 14 languages, PARI is an independent multimedia digital platform, whose reporting mandate is to cover every region and section of rural people. In seven years, PARI has won over 50 journalism awards. Sainath lives in Mumbai.
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    • 129 mm
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    5

    A book beyond words from a simple and sensible journalist

    Must read for the Gen X and specially all the bureaucrats and politicians who don't even know or care what is going on.

    India is not about IT or massive industrial growth or reforms its about the farmers and the millions who live on agriculture. We in this modern world don't even know that such kind of India exists.

    We campaign to save our Tigers but none of us know that there is another endangered breed called as the Farmers.

    Someone said it correctly "In this part of the word the value o...
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    Paul Joseph

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    Tales from the margin

    The reputation of this book often runs ahead of its content. While it is an excellent work of journalism, it is essentially a collection of reports from the poorest of India's districts. Read as that, it is an informative account -- each story reads like a mini-ethnography into the lives of people. Anyone familiar with Sainath's reportage in The Hindu wouldn't be too surprised.

    It would be erroneous to generalise the portraits in this book to all of India's poor. The variation within these s...
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    Ajinkya D

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    Feb, 2012

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    a no non-sense collection

    while reading this book,you will definitely have the feeling ''I am far better off than many'' etc kind of feeling.But apart from the emotional kick of it,the book shows how well intended programs go wrong due to bad execution,stories of exploitation.Definitely we would love to think that they are two decades old situations and things might have improved but when google shows me the ''cut-off'' area is still defined as a cut off area,well,i guess such books still have their relevance...bottom...
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    Anirban Chandra

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    Sep, 2014

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    Everybody loves a good draught

    I thank Flipcart for sending acopy of this book very fast. The book is an excellent record of our govt's miserable failure to elevate the problems of the poor. At the same time India needs Mega projects to supply electricity which is totally inadquate for the demand. Naturally lots of poor get displaced by these and the govt. ought to provide adequate compensation in realistic terms to the poor tribals and Adivasis. Though the projects are well meaning, the compensation is swallowed by greed...
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    Dr Santosh Pai

    Jul, 2013

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    Everybody loves a good flood

    This book is one of the best to understand the reality called INDIA.
    Sainath is one of the best to get it right.
    True to the heart , filled with humor.
    He makes you laugh all the way through the pages with tears of grief.
    It's really tough to have a book written in this way.
    Hats offf Sainath sir.
    Highly recommended for every true citizen of the land.
    Don't live in an imaginary world...Welcome the reality of India through Sainath.....
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    Oct, 2011

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    The Human face of poverty

    "Everybody loves a good drought" features stories from some of India's poorest districts. This book is a thoroughly researched study of the poorest of the poor and how they manage to live, or rather survive.

    To cover all the issues faced by the poor in India will be a mammoth task; and hence the book features/covers places which is the author's account of visits to these places. The featured incidents in the book widely fall under the categories of Crazy development project schemes, Health &...
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    Rani

    Nov, 2011

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    Good one for social worker

    Everybody loves a good drought

    Everybody loves a good drought by P.Sainath is not something about any natural disaster like
    drought it is basically a cluster of reports from India's poorest districts during the period of 1993-1996. P.Sainath is Mumbai-based freelance journalist.It highlights the pathetic conditions of the
    farmers and the people living in villages where people are still living in deprived conditions. It tells
    that our present government is not doing anything for them and all ...
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    Rahul Dahiya

    Nov, 2014

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    Nice

    I m preparing for upsc and I liked this book for some case study in gs..it can be also is a nice crafted book and extremely we'll written.
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    vivek singh

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    Dec, 2013

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    Fantabulous!

    This book will give you the minute details of exploitation of the poor, especially the tribals and the adivasis by the government. A must read for everyone who wants to know what actual India is! I would suggest this book to all future journalists and Civil Service Aspirants. All the politicians, bureaucrats (IAS and IPS Officers) and Govt. Servants also should read this book to understand where exactly the problem persists and what kind of problems the poorest of the poor face in a country l...
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    Rahul Maganti

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    Jun, 2013

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    Must Read

    If anyone wants to know how the poor in our country live, this is the book to read. Sainath has tried to give as much details as possible in the limited space to apprise the reader on what's it to be a member of a tribal community in the poorest of the poor districts of the country. It's focus is on the fact that tribals are debarred of the property they have been owning log before there was a country like India or a Government like Government of India ... All in the name of development. The...
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    saurabh zachariah

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    Q:Which s latest edition??
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    Q:Is it an easy read ??
    A:Yes, but it is not fiction.
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    A:491 (Pagesand Cover quality is also good- original book)
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