Dreamers : How Young Indians Are Changing Their World & Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts (Set of 2 Books)

This combo product is bundled in India but the publishing origin of this title may vary.Publication date of this bundle is the creation date of this bundle; the actual publication date of child items may vary.With more than half of India under the age of twenty-five the country is set to have the youngest population in the world by 2021. But India's millennials are nothing like their counterparts in the West.In a world that is marked by unprecedented connectivity and technological advancement in a country that is increasingly characterized by ambition access and political power in an economy that appears to be breaking down the barriers to wealth that existed for every previous era this is a generation that cannot-will not-be defined on anything but their own terms. They are wealth-chasers attention-seekers power-trappers fame-hunters. They are the dreamers.Snigdha Poonam's remarkable cultural study of the unlikeliest of fortune-hawkers travels through the small towns of north India to investigate the phenomenon that is India's Generation Y. From dubious entrepreneurs to political aspirants from starstruck strivers to masterly swindlers she travels-on carts and buses in cars and trucks-through India's badlands to uncover a theatre of toxic masculinity spirited ambition and a kind of hunger for change that is bound to drive the future of our country. These young Indians aren't just changing their world-they're changing yours. About the Author Snigdha Poonam is a journalist based in New Delhi. Her work has appeared in theGuardian theNew York TimesCaravanGranta and other publications. She currently reports on national affairs at theHindustan Times. She won the 2017 Journalist of Change award of Bournemouth University for a work of reportage that appeared onHuffington Post.Acclaimed across the world prescribed in over 100 universities and colleges and included in part in The Century's Greatest Reportage (Ordfront 2000) alongside the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Studs Terkel and John Reed Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the established classic on rural poverty in India. Twenty years after publication it remains unsurpassed in the scope and depth of reportage providing an intimate view of the daily struggles of the poor and the efforts often ludicrous made to uplift them.An illuminating introduction accompanying this twentieth-anniversary edition reveals alarmingly how a large section of India continues to suffer in the name of development so that a small percentage may prosper. Besides exposing chronic misgovernance it is also a devastating comment on the media's failure to speak for the voiceless. Review Should be renamed Discovery of Poor India -- Prof. Madhu DandavateBrilliant . . . It rates comparison with Engels'Condition of the English Working Class . . . but Sainath writes better -- Robin JeffreyAustralianExemplary research a fine sensibility and much irony . . . an unquestionably fineIndian Express[Sainath] has lifted the poor from the footnote to the page and made them a significant part [of] the very discourse of the Indian republicPioneerDeserves to be read by every conscientious citizen . . . and yes by every journalistFrontline About the Author Palagummi Sainath (born 1957) is an Indian journalist and photojournalist focusing on social problems rural affairs poverty and the aftermath of globalization in India. He was the Rural Affairs Editor at The Hindu before resigning in 2014 and the website India Together has been archiving some of his work in The Hindu daily for the past six years. Amartya Sen has called him &#34one of the world's great experts on famine and hunger&#34. Since late 2011 he has been working on People's Archive of Rural India PARI for which he is the Founding Editor. In June 2011 Sainath was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree (DLitt) by the University of Alberta the university's highest honor. He is one of few Indians to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award which he accepted in 2007 in the category of Journalism Literature and Creative Communication Arts.