{"product_id":"nine-rupees-an-hour-disappearing-livelihoods-of-tamil-nadu","title":"NINE RUPEES AN HOUR: DISAPPEARING LIVELIHOODS OF TAMIL NADU","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e APARNA KARTHIKEYAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Context\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 08-09-2022\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e About the book\u003cbr\u003e\nTHIS MUCH-FETED BOOK RETURNS IN A STRIKING, ALL-NEW COVER! A NUANCED AND MUCH-NEEDED REPORT FROM THE GROUND ON TAMIL NADU, AND INDEED INDIA’S, ENDANGERED LIVELIHOODS.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a rapidly urbanising nation, rural India is being erased from the popular imagination. Through her five years of travelling across the villages of Tamil Nadu, Aparna Karthikeyan gets to know men and women who do exceptional—yet perfectly ordinary—things to earn a living. She documents, through ten of these stories, the transformations, aspirations and disruptions of the last twenty-five years. The people she meets force these questions of her, and her reader: What is the culture we seek to preserve? What will become of food security without farmers? How can ‘development’ exclude 833 million people?\u003cbr\u003e\nIncluding interviews with journalist P. Sainath, musician T.M. Krishna and writer Bama, among others, Nine Rupees an Hour is a critical portrayal of the drastic and systematic erosion of traditional livelihoods.\u003cbr\u003e\nThese engaging narratives unravel a peoples’ perspective of work and life, where creative beauty and human dignity merge to matter, even if their worth in market-obsessed economics is merely nine rupees an hour. Evocative and relevant, they jostle our comfort. Statistics and economic analyses of wages and work, juxtaposed with the lives people lead, help us understand the situation on the ground. A book all of us must read’ - Aruna Roy, Social activist\u003cbr\u003e\nSustainable livelihoods provide the foundation for a happy life. We owe a deep sense of gratitude to Aparna Karthikeyan for bringing out this useful book based on real-life examples. I hope the book will be widely read. - M.S. Swaminathan, plant geneticist and agricultural scientist\u003cbr\u003e\nAparna Karthikeyan is a storyteller and an independent journalist. She volunteers for the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) and has written for them, as well as for The Hindu, The Caravan, The Wire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789395073233\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Context","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51105128153392,"sku":"VarietyBook_9789395073233","price":375.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/81czQPgD8UL.jpg?v=1773458851","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/nine-rupees-an-hour-disappearing-livelihoods-of-tamil-nadu","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}