Overview
''At one level about drought but, at another, even more about loss, about the human condition. This is an important book. Read it.'' - From the Foreword by P. Sainath, author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought.''What a book. You can tell it comes from years of immersive research. Establishes Marathwada as an early sign of a frightening global future, has an eye for the telling anecdote, the cinematic case study, the ringing quote.'' - Suhit Kelkar, Business Standard
WINNER OF THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE FIRST BOOK AWARD (NON-FICTION) 2021Maharashtra, 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.
- | Author: Kavitha Iyer
- | Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
- | Publication Date: Feb 10, 2021
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- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-13: 9789390327461
- | ISBN-10: 9390327466