Book Review: Everybody loves a good drought - stories from India's poorest districts by P.Sainath
Everybody Loves A Good Drought - P Sainath
I have heard about this book quite some time back - but had the chance to read it only now.
What a read!
It just hits you hard. What kind of life that we are leading vs what kind of life is doled out to so very many people out there.
Poverty by design. Poverty by birth. Poverty by every single means possible. And, the Government machinery not being able to do anything about it.
"What is in a name? Ask the Dhuruas" takes the cake. One person is ST. But, his own brother is not deemed so. How can this be? It is. And there seems to be no solution...
The stories of quacks and why quacks thrive.
The status of education in these poorest of the districts...where the solitary goat is the only occupant in the "school" ..
And, how the so called "Developmental Projects" have done nothing to the people who inherited and lived in those places...
How the money lenders destroy families, make those who borrowed their slaves...
It is full of stories you don't want to read curling up in the night. I did that mistake and I could not sleep. I can still see these people in my mind...
The note in the appendix on "Poverty line" and what it looks at or rather what it completely misses to look at is really hard hitting.
The book made me think about what I am going to do about the whole thing now that I have read it. There is so much that each of us can do...
Everybody Loves A Good Drought - P Sainath
I have heard about this book quite some time back - but had the chance to read it only now.
What a read!
It just hits you hard. What kind of life that we are leading vs what kind of life is doled out to so very many people out there.
Poverty by design. Poverty by birth. Poverty by every single means possible. And, the Government machinery not being able to do anything about it.
"What is in a name? Ask the Dhuruas" takes the cake. One person is ST. But, his own brother is not deemed so. How can this be? It is. And there seems to be no solution...
The stories of quacks and why quacks thrive.
The status of education in these poorest of the districts...where the solitary goat is the only occupant in the "school" ..
And, how the so called "Developmental Projects" have done nothing to the people who inherited and lived in those places...
How the money lenders destroy families, make those who borrowed their slaves...
It is full of stories you don't want to read curling up in the night. I did that mistake and I could not sleep. I can still see these people in my mind...
The note in the appendix on "Poverty line" and what it looks at or rather what it completely misses to look at is really hard hitting.
The book made me think about what I am going to do about the whole thing now that I have read it. There is so much that each of us can do...
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