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EPISODE · Apr 27, 2022 · 9H 44M

Enjoy Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought from Kavitha Iyer

from Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics · host Kavitha Iyer

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/583622 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought Author: Kavitha Iyer Narrator: Shivani Vakil Savant Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 44 minutes Release date: April 27, 2022 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: WINNER OF THE TATA LITERATURE LIVE FIRST BOOK AWARD (NON-FICTION) 2021 Maharashtra, 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.

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