Penguin 35 Collectors Edition: Everybody Loves a Good Drought

<p>A CLASSIC OF REPORTAGE FROM RURAL INDIA BY AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR WITH A FOREWORD BY GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p>