Palagummi Sainath
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Palagummi Sainath (born 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]
Palagummi Sainath | |
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Born | (1957-05-13) May 13, 1957 (age 67) Madras, Madras State, India |
Alma mater | |
Occupation | Journalist |
Notable work | Everybody Loves a Good Drought |
Relatives | V. V. Giri (grandfather) |
Awards | |
Website | psainath |
He founded the People's Archive of Rural India (PARI) in 2014, an online platform that focuses on social and economic inequality, rural affairs, poverty, and the aftermath of globalization in India.[5] He was a senior fellow at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and was earlier the Rural Affairs Editor at The Hindu until his resignation in 2014.[6]
He has received many awards for his journalism. The economist Amartya Sen called him "one of the world's great experts on famine and hunger".[7] His book Everybody Loves a Good Drought is a collection of his field reports as a journalist, and focuses on different aspects of rural deprivation in India.[8]