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Seema Chishti reviews Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought, by Kavitha Iyer thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Drought Is Not Simply a Natural Calamity, It Is Also Driven by Commercial Greed In his foreword to Kavitha Iyer s book Landscapes of Loss , P. Sainath writes about the commodification of water and the thriving thirst economy in the Marathwada region. Representative image of a handpump. Photo: nevil zaveri/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) As India witnesses its largest-ever farmers’ agitation, Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought, a new book by Kavitha Iyer, takes a close look at several of the deeper issues that have been afflicting the country’s farming community for decades now and brought it to this desperate pass. ....
Stories about the drought in Marathwada have been appearing in the media off and on. Kavitha Iyer’s ‘Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought’, however, is the first in-dep ....