Raatalu says that the sky turned grey yesterday; it got cloudy the day before. The clouds went away. Even if it rains, it rains like “spittle from the mouth”. Raatlau is a 60-year-old farmer, agricultural labourer, and a shepherd. He owns ten buffaloes, four goats and two bullocks.  On a recent day in Jagannadhapuram village, in Andhra’s West Godavari district, it was windless, warm, and cloudless. In this heat, everything looked singed—the land, people, buffalo