![]() ![]() consisting of mostly tribals and dalits, “India is dark and nightmarish”. ![]() Through these reports, Sainath intends to demonstrate that while ‘India shining’ is true only for a small chunk, about ten per cent Indians, for the remaining 90 per cent. Though each report narrates an ‘incident’, Sainath is interested not in ‘incidents’ as such but in the ‘process’ which bred these incidents. The book contains 68 reports, divided into ten sections, and the long article on “Poverty, Development and Media” concludes the narrative. Mohan, another committed journalist and Sainath’s friend, has ably translated this book into Kannada. Immediately, it became a best-seller and got translated into many other languages. ![]() Later, he undertook another trip to some of those and other districts in order to write a book based on those reports and the book,Įverybody Loves a Good Drought, was published by Penguin Books in 2000. During this challenging tour lasting 15 months and, roughly, 80,000 km, he filed a series of reports based on his experience, published in the Palagummi Sainath is one such in the field of journalism: he gave up prestigious jobs and during 1993-94, toured two of the poorest districts in the states of Orissa, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Uttara Pradesh, and Tamilnadu. People like Medha Patkar, Baba Amte, and Teesta Setalvad are very different from others – because they choose to tread a ‘path not taken’. ![]()
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