## Everybody Loves a Good Drought ### Everybody Loves a Good Drought  #### Metadata * Author: [[Sainath, P]] * Full Title: Everybody Loves a Good Drought * Category: #books #### Highlights * But I did want to escape what Swami Vivekananda once described as the propensity of the Indian elite to discuss for hours whether a glass of water ought to be taken with the left hand or the right hand. (Location 155) * The state had given the peasants land to grow fodder for cattle. Why not give them land on which to grow food for themselves? In the early days, some of the 'beneficiaries' did that anyway. They grew vegetables. This annoyed the experts, who pulled them up. Such activity endangered a serious experiment aimed at reducing poverty. The authorities warned them that the minimum wage was there only if they grew fodder, not food. At the end, they had neither fodder nor food. Neither cattle nor land. (Location 246) # Everybody Loves a Good Drought  ## Metadata - Author: [[Sainath, P]] - Full Title: Everybody Loves a Good Drought - Category: #books ## Highlights - But I did want to escape what Swami Vivekananda once described as the propensity of the Indian elite to discuss for hours whether a glass of water ought to be taken with the left hand or the right hand. (Location 155) - The state had given the peasants land to grow fodder for cattle. Why not give them land on which to grow food for themselves? In the early days, some of the ‘beneficiaries’ did that anyway. They grew vegetables. This annoyed the experts, who pulled them up. Such activity endangered a serious experiment aimed at reducing poverty. The authorities warned them that the minimum wage was there only if they grew fodder, not food. At the end, they had neither fodder nor food. Neither cattle nor land. (Location 246)