As she goes about her work with the villagers, slum dwellers and the common men and women of India, Sudha Murty--writer, social worker and teacher--listens to them and records what they have to say. Their accounts of the struggles and hardships which they have at times overcome, and at other times been overwhelmed by, are put together in this book. There are stories about people's generosity--and selfishness--in times of natural disasters...