In 1995 Sainath traveled through areas of India he had previously explored to finish a book on poverty. Everybody Loves a Good Drought , published in 1996, rocketed to the top of India's non-fiction bestseller list. Irreverent and full of the fierce convictions of its writer, it attracted both adulation and anger. Cathy Simon and Joe Moulins traveled with Sainath from March to June of 1995 to prepare this documentary about Sainath and his country. The question that has long fueled science fiction now drives the study of history.
Historians discuss the magic of freeing the past from the chains of reality.
In words and music, Lister Sinclair pays further tribute to humanity's milestones, past and present. The complexity of antibiotic resistance calls for multi-faceted solutions. Colman Jones explores old and new ideas about health and disease. The Chinese revolution ended in 1949 when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek abandoned Mainland China to his old adversary Mao Zedong. He retreated to the offshore province of Formosa, which had recently been returned to China after a half-century occupation by the Japanese.