Everybody Loves a Good Drought

A beautifully judged account, bristling with vigorous humanity * The Mail on Sunday * A devastating new book ... on a huge section of Indian society ... Its author has criss-crossed the country, living in the poorest villages and riding the trains with out-of-work migrants, to compile a dossier of deprivation and neglect... * The Guardian * An extraordinary achievement.a fascinating, worrying and at times amusing book.He has avoided the sensational - the spectacular natural disasters or the outbreaks of plague - and concentrated instead on building up a detailed picture of how people live -- Patrick French * The Times, London * Establishes Sainath as one of the finest Indian journalists of his generation ... This is journalism of a high order; pointed, well-researched, critical, stirring, alive with passion and thought. It deserves the widest readership -- Sunil Khilnani * The Independent * Extraordinary - investigative journalism at its best * Times Literary Supplement * While the author's original audience was Indian, this book transcends national borders, presenting characters, lives and stories of interest to anyone who follows community development and politics ... a fascinating look into the lives of some of the world's poorest citizens ... few journalists commit themselves to a project as this author has done -- Kim Bolan * The Vancouver Sun *