The journalist talks to Charukesi Ramadurai about recording the stories of everyday people and his hopes for India’s future.
In the 20 years since your book Everybody loves a good drought was published, how has India changed?
Those 20 years have seen India move rapidly along what the stories in A Good Drought recorded: deepening inequality. The elite and upper strata of Indian society, including a few sections of the middle classes, have done better than they ever dreamed of. Millions of others have faced deprivation they never imagined possible.
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