![]() In addition, Sainath explores government policies that have contributed towards the exploitation and victimisation of poor people – often under the guise of helping them. The book provides detailed, intimate descriptions of the realities facing poor people, capturing their torment and despair as well as their beliefs and aspirations. It is primarily made up of previously published Times of India newspaper reports. The newspaper published many of Sainath’s reports and some are re-printed in this book alongside original content.Įverybody Loves A Good Drought is primarily made up of a series of short accounts of Palagummi Sainath’s travels around rural India, with a focus on the lives of some of the hundreds of millions of people living below the poverty line in the country in the late nineties. The research involved travelling almost 100,000 kilometres across the country, including thousands of kilometres on foot. Research for the book was undertaken by Sainath himself while working for the Times of India newspaper. Regarded as a modern classic in the field of rural poverty reporting, the book contains stories from the poorest districts in India and the struggles faced by the people living in them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Originally published by Penguin Books back in 1996, Everybody Loves A Good Drought is written by the acclaimed Indian journalist Palagummi Sainath. ![]()
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