Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts

My friends... I am devastated. Shaken to the core by what happens in my beloved country. Ashamed to eat three square meals a day, and call myself Indian, when in parts of India children die like flies due to malnutrition and preventable diseases. The fact that I am a cog in the machine which contribu......more

This book encompasses a number of oxymorons. At one moment you feel like laughing at the mindless policies of the government and various commissions, whereas at the very next moment the pain of the helpless catch your imagination making you feel thoroughly depressed and heartbroken. A very lucid des......more

With around 3,000 people rating this book in Goodreads, it had a sensational reach when it was initially published in 1996, further winning him the famous Ramon Magsaysay Award. This book is a compilation of around 80 essays written for the Times of India between 1990 and 1992, touring the poorest d......more

The first thing that struck me after finishing the book was that there was a time in India when a newspaper like Times of India could hire someone like Sainath and give him a free hand over his own reportage. Although the book was compiled in the early 1990s and the wide ranging effects of the econo......more

The book provides an account of the life of the other India, one that's rarely portrayed in media, an India which many of us grow up unaware of, being raised in cities. The narrative is chilling, affects one at a deep level and is quite perspective altering. It's a story about the sheer apathy India......more