An award-winning author's timeless report from rural India, with a foreword by GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI Everybody Loves a Good Drought is the widely recognised standard on rural poverty in India. It is required reading in more than 100 universities and colleges and was included in part in The Century's Greatest Reportage (Ordfront, 2000), alongside the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Studs Terkel, and John Reed. Twenty years after its publication, it is still unmatched in terms of width and depth of reporting, giving readers an up-close look at the poor's everyday difficulties and the frequently absurd efforts undertaken to improve their lot in life. This twentieth-anniversary edition's insightful preface describes, shockingly, how a sizable portion of India continues to suffer in the name of development so that a small portion of the country can benefit.