A drought, for instance – a real one or even a rigged one – is a much sought after phenomenon – akin to a harvest of riches. The stories showcase what ails our government projects – many of the cogs in the wheel plunder, loot and thrive on what they siphon out from such projects.
They have to bear the brunt of everything from lack of facilities like sanitation, health and education, drinking water, roads and transport – well everything that would raise the quality of human development indices even after close to four decades of independence. Yet, one cannot but marvel at the resilience of these hardy people who bounce back and eke out their livelihoods in their own simple ways. There are some reports from Koraput and Kalahandi (Orissa), totalling about sixty-eight stories.Ī deep sense of anguish is the underlying feeling as one reads about the poor, the dalits, the adivasis and the marginalized communities. If there’s a book that has taken me through myriads of emotions, it is this collection of the author’s visits and reports from the poorest of the poor districts of India – specifically from eight districts – Ramnad and Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, Godda and Palamau in Bihar, Malkangiri and Nuapada in Orissa and Surguja and Jhabua, in Madhya Pradesh. To make rural stories more accessible, excerpts from the book have been also published on People's Archive of Rural India.Everyone loves a good drought by P. The book is considered one of the most detailed, authentic, highly regarded and readable studies of 1980s rural India. ĭivided into separate sections based on the issues that the chapters deal with, the book scathingly unveils how trickle up and down theories do not work in reality in the country, and the stunningly high levels of corruption in so called development projects.
He wrote the stories by detailing out the projects as well as the lives of villagers living in these places, supplementing them with detailed statistics. The articles give extensive detail of how various government projects do and do not work at the ground level, and whether they actually deliver any of their promised results in reality. Sainath wrote the book by combining 84 articles that he had written from 1990 to 1992 for the Times of India, while residing in the poorest villages in the interiors of India, especially Tamil Nadu, what today is referred to as Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and what is today referred to as Chhattisgarh on a two-year Bennett and Coleman fellowship. The book won him the Ramon Magsaysay Award. Sainath, about his research findings of poverty in the rural districts of India. Everybody Loves a Good Drought is a book, by P.
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