Beyond the clichéd north Indian village
Rumble in a Village Authors: Luc Leruth with Jean Dreze Published by: Aleph ISBN: 978-93-89836-12-7 Number of pages: 292 Year of Publishing: 2020 Price: 699/- Cover Illustration: Mohit Suneja This review was published at the Purple Pencil Project . Many thanks to the team there. Fiction often allows subject specialists to explore ideas and topics in inventive ways, far removed from the restrictions that research papers ask for. Many talk about taking the fiction route but few end up taking it up and rare are those who manage it with a flair. Rumble in a Village, by Luc Leruth and Jean Dreze is exactly one such book. Set in rural North India, and borrowing heavily from Jean Dreze’s experiences as a development economist. Throwing everything cliche about a sleepy old village out of the window, Rumble in a Village, is, as Nandana Sen has testified on the cover, “ disturbing in its truth ” and “ infectious in its humour ”. The book begins with a phone call. A banker in Europe is ask