A review by dvasudreddy
Everybody Loves a Good Drought by Palagummi Sainath, P. Sainath
5.0
What a book it was.
It may be outdated by current day standards, but it can very well give you the right picture of rural India when poorest of the poor still lives and fights for everyday survival. It was not easy reading this book, but, it was necessary to understand from where we have come and to how far we have traveled.
Although there has been a overall improvements in living standards across the board since the book was published, there would most likely be those communities where eating three square meals a day is still a challenge. The average distance we travel to find drinking water is although reduced, it is not reduced enough to use that spare on some productive works.
Poverty is a trap which keeps poor in the state of poverty unless some external factor pushes them out of it. And, education is one such factor.
Kudos to Sainath for such a brilliant journalistic treaty, no wonder why he is so acclaimed amongst the world scholars.
I wish he/someone of his qualities visits the same communities/places to report how their lives have have turned out after these two decades of rapid growth.
It may be outdated by current day standards, but it can very well give you the right picture of rural India when poorest of the poor still lives and fights for everyday survival. It was not easy reading this book, but, it was necessary to understand from where we have come and to how far we have traveled.
Although there has been a overall improvements in living standards across the board since the book was published, there would most likely be those communities where eating three square meals a day is still a challenge. The average distance we travel to find drinking water is although reduced, it is not reduced enough to use that spare on some productive works.
Poverty is a trap which keeps poor in the state of poverty unless some external factor pushes them out of it. And, education is one such factor.
Kudos to Sainath for such a brilliant journalistic treaty, no wonder why he is so acclaimed amongst the world scholars.
I wish he/someone of his qualities visits the same communities/places to report how their lives have have turned out after these two decades of rapid growth.