People of Esarn Pira Sudham brings into the light the lives of some of the ordinary Thai people who live in obscurity in remote villages in northeast Thailand. Monsoon People Forthcoming, the sequel to Pira Sudham's major novel Monsoon Country . Northeast Thailand News Child selling has become a practice to most of the families in Nok Krian village, Burirum, due to poverty. The drive to establish the pulp and paper industry in Thailand has brought losses and suffering to people who have been forced to leave their lands. Thailand in Transition Change is inevitable.
Nothing is permanent.
The mighty Pharaohs, the great Caesars, and all the fearsome empire-building warlords have come and gone. One day, after so many lives were lost, the Berlin Wall fell like a ripe fruit. Change, change utterly. A terrible beauty is born. In Monsoon Country and its sequel, Monsoon People , Pira Sudham has outlined the socio-economic and political changes occurring in Siam during the past 50 years.