The 1980s were probably the NGO sector’s most idealistic phase. Young, middle-class people, often with a blue chip education, went into rural India to work with poor and marginalised communities. One of them was Gautam Vohra who started Development Research and Action Group (DRAG) in 1988 after a stint in Cuba. He decided to work for the Katkari and Thakkar Adivasis in Pen taluk of Raigad district in Maharashtra and courageously set up his NGO first in Roha taluk.
The book consists of a series of reports by his field workers, committee members, other NGOs and. . .