ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of the drought in the world literature, art, philosophy and the community. It examines the nature and impacts of drought from an academic point of view using the publications of researchers, officials and the resource managers themselves. Literature is defined as both travel-writing/documentaries and fiction. The literature provides an insight into a specific culture's understanding of the role of humans in the global environment, especially the culture's attitude to the management of environmental resources, and particularly its beliefs as to the scope of that management and the details of the successes or failures in coping with the drought threat. The regional novel traditionally has been accepted as the medium by which a society, its members and its immediate environment are portrayed most vividly. Da Cunha had described in detail the flora and fauna of the region as playing a significant role in creating the independent but also somewhat fatalistic outlook of the peasants.
