Palagummi Sainath

Palagummi Sainath
Sainath in Attappadi, Kerala
Born (1957-05-13) 13 May 1957 (age 67)
Madras, Madras State, India
Alma mater
OccupationJournalist
Notable workEverybody Loves a Good Drought
RelativesV. V. Giri (grandfather)
Awards
Websitepsainath.org

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]

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]

PARI receiving the Praful Bidwai Memorial Award
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "Sainath, Palagummi". www.rmaward.asia. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  3. ^ P Sainath (13 April 2018). "In India, Farmers Face a Terrifying Crisis". New York Times.
  4. ^ "Farm Bills Will Create a Vacuum that May Result in Utter Chaos: P. Sainath" 23 September 2020. Mukherjee, Mitali. The Wire.
  5. ^ P Sainath (1 August 2007). "Invisible India is the elephant in your bedroom". Indiatogether.org. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Another churn at The Hindu as Praveen Swami & P Sainath quit". Bestmediainfo.com.
  7. ^ "Boerma Award winners talk about their work". Food and Agriculture Organization. Archived from the original on 24 November 2001. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  8. ^ "Everyone loves a good drought: Book review". Times of India Blog. 31 August 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2021.