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Palagummi Sainath (born 13 May 1957) is an Indian columnist and author of the acclaimed book Everybody Loves a Good Drought. [1] [2] He has extensively written on rural India, his notable interests are poverty, structural inequities, caste discrimination and farmers protests. [2] [3] [4]
P. Sainath, former Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, is the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious prize (and often referred to as the ‘Asian Nobel’), for Journalism Literature and Creative Communications Arts.
Sainath, former Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, writer and journalism teacher, is the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious prize. He has also won the World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence 2014, in Public Welfare reporting.
Jun 28, 2021 · Mr. Palagummi Sainath is a passionately committed journalist who has continued to investigate impoverished farming villages in India, listen to voices from the rural population, capture the reality of the people’s lifestyle , and report 'rural stories'.
Sainath is perhaps the most influential voice in the public discourse on agriculture, in particular with his ground-breaking work on farmer suicides. Close to 300,000 impoverished Indian farmers — many driven by indebtedness — have taken their own lives in less than two decades since 1995.
पालागुम्मि साईनाथ (अंग्रेज़ी: Palagummi Sainath, जन्म- 1957, आंध्र प्रदेश) भारत के जानेमाने पत्रकार हैं। उन्होंने अपनी पत्रकारिता को सामाजिक समस्याओं, ग्रामीण हालातों, ग़रीबी, किसान समस्या और भारत पर वैश्वीकरण के घातक प्रभावों पर केंद्रित किया है। वे स्वयं को ग्रामीण संवाददाता या केवल संवाददाता कहते हैं। वे अंग्रेज़ी समाचार पत्र 'द हिंदू' और 'द ...
This is a sneak peek of the thoughts, vision and perspective of the veteran columnist Palagummi Sainath, a personage with an in-depth archive of rural India....
Nov 13, 2023 · The fastest growing phenomenon in India is not IT, but inequality. It’s a pandemic on its own, feeding heavily into Covid-19 and other deadly crises. A country that had zero dollar billionaires in 1991 when it embarked on its brave new neoliberal world journey now counts some 174.
P. (Palagummi) Sainath. Founder and editor of People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) ADW-PAL term: 2024-30. Subject area: Social Sciences. Faculty host: Sarah Besky (Associate Professor; Global Labor & Work, School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Director, South Asia Program, Einaudi Center for International Studies)
Palagummi Sainath is founder-editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI). He has been a journalist and reporter for 42 years, covering rural India full time for thirty of those. With an MA in History from JNU, Sainath joined the United News of India in 1980.
