Everybody loves a good drought

Everybody loves a good drought
Author: P Sainath
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2000-10-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 8184757344

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The human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer from tuberculosis gets overlooked. In this thoroughly researched study of the poorest of the poor, we get to see how they manage, what sustains them, and the efforts, often ludicrous, to do something for them. The people who figure in this book typify the lives and aspirations of a large section of Indian society, and their stories present us with the true face of development.

Landscapes of Loss

Landscapes of Loss
Author: Kavitha Iyer
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2021-02-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9390327474

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WINNER OF THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE FIRST BOOK AWARD (NON-FICTION) 2021 Maharashtra, India's richest state by GDP, has its eyes set on becoming the country's first trillion-dollar economy by 2025. At the same time, Marathwada - a historically backward part of the state adjoining the distressed Vidarbha region - has seen a surge in farmer suicides. At the heart of the crisis is a cyclical drought that has persisted for almost a decade. Relief packages and loan waivers have not reversed the trend. On the contrary, the stories of dystopia grow more tragic every year as thousands of farmer families flee to the big cities, while those who stay back are plagued by bad credit and crop loss. Landscapes of Loss tells the story of Marathwada through the accounts of its people: marginal farmers, Dalits, landless labourers, farm widows and children. It lays bare the complex factors that have brought the region to this pass - a story representative, in many ways, of the agrarian unrest in large parts of rural India.

Ramrao

Ramrao
Author: Jaideep Hardikar
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-08-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9354223095

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One morning in 2014, Ramrao Panchleniwar, an ordinary cotton grower in Maharashtra's infamous Vidarbha region, consumed two bottles of pesticide in a bid to commit suicide. But he miraculously survived. In Ramrao, rural journalist Jaideep Hardikar attempts to put a face to India's unending farm crisis with his story. He takes the reader on a journey of the everyday life of an Indian farmer, his daily struggles, his desperation to come out of his situation, his inability and many failings, the quagmire of issues he faces, and how he comes to a pass where he chooses to put an end to it all. The result of years of committed reportage, this is an evocative read that rescues an ordinary life from obscurity and turns it into an essential biography for our times.

The Time it Never Rained

The Time it Never Rained
Author: Elmer Kelton
Publisher: TCU Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1984
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780912646893

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Repub. of Doubleday 1973 edition, with new introductions by Kelton and an afterword.

A Little Something Different

A Little Something Different
Author: Sandy Hall
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250061776

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The distinctive new crowdsourced publishing imprint Swoon Reads proudly presents its first published novel—an irresistibly sweet romance between two college students told from 14 different viewpoints. The creative writing teacher, the delivery guy, the local Starbucks baristas, his best friend, her roommate, and the squirrel in the park all have one thing in common—they believe that Gabe and Lea should get together. Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class. They get the same pop culture references, order the same Chinese food, and hang out in the same places. Unfortunately, Lea is reserved, Gabe has issues, and despite their initial mutual crush, it looks like they are never going to work things out. But somehow even when nothing is going on, something is happening between them, and everyone can see it. You'll be rooting for Gabe and Lea too, in Sandy Hall's quirky, completely original novel A Little Something Different, chosen by readers, writes, and publishers, to be the debut titles for the new Swoon Reads imprint!

A History of India

A History of India
Author: Romila Thapar
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 503
Release: 1990-06-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0141949767

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A history of India upto 1300 AD introducing the beginnings of India's cultural dynamics

Enough

Enough
Author: Roger Thurow
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2010
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1458767337

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For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the ''Green Revolution'' succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of hunger, malnutrition, and related diseases every year - most of them in Africa and most of them children. More die of hunger in Africa than from AIDS and malaria combined. Now, an impending global food crisis threatens to make things worse. In the west we think of famine as a natural disaster, brought about by drought; or as the legacy of brutal dictators. But in this powerful investigative narrative, Thurow & Kilman show exactly how, in the past few decades, American, British, and European policies conspired to keep Africa hungry and unable to feed itself. As a new generation of activists work to keep famine from spreading, Enough is essential reading on a humanitarian issue of utmost urgency.

Dhandha

Dhandha
Author: Shobha Bondre
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2013-05-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8184004249

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Dhandha, meaning business, is a term often used in common trade parlance in India. But there is no other community that fully embodies what the term stands for than the Gujaratis. Shobha Bondre’s Dhandha is the story of a few such Gujaratis: Jaydev Patel—the New York Life Insurance agent credited with having sold policies worth $2.5 billion so far; Bhimjibhai Patel—one of the country’s biggest diamond merchants and co-founder of the ambitious ‘Diamond Nagar’ in Surat; Dalpatbhai Patel—the motelier who went on to become the mayor of Mansfield County; Mohanbhai Patel—a former Sheriff of Mumbai and the leading manufacturer of aluminium collapsible tubes; and Hersha and Hasu Shah—owners of over a hundred hotels in the US. Travelling across continents—from Mumbai to the United States—in search of their story and the common values that bond them, Dhandha showcases the powerful ambition, incredible capacity for hard work, and the inherent business sense of the Gujaratis.

The Puffin Book of 100 Great Indians

The Puffin Book of 100 Great Indians
Author:
Publisher: Puffin
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2012
Genre: Celebrities
ISBN: 9780143331735

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Pioneering scientist and mathematician Aryabhatta; Missile man Dr Kalam; economist and Nobel laureate Dr Amartya Sen; Indias Renaissance man Ram Mohan Roy;