People's Archive of Rural India

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People's Archive of Rural India

Logo of People's Archive of Rural India
Type of site	Digital Journalism
Available in	English – and also Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu (of these, the most translations are in Hindi, Marathi, Odia, Tamil, Urdu)
Area served	Online
Owner	CounterMedia Trust
Founder(s)	Palagummi Sainath
Key people	Aakanksha Aditi Chandrasekhar Aditya Dipankar Aparna Karthikeyan Binaifer Bharucha Jaideep Hardikar Jyoti Shinoli Kanika Gupta Kavitha Muralidharan Medha Kale Namita Waikar Oorna Raut Pratishtha Pandya Priti David Samyukta Shastri Shalini Singh Sharmila Joshi Shraddha Agarwal Siddharth Adelkar Sinchita Maji Smita Khator Urja Vinutha Mallya Vishaka George Zahra Latif
URL	ruralindiaonline.org
Commercial	No
Launched	Dec 20, 2014
Current status	Active

The People's Archive of Rural India (PARI /ˈpɑːri/) is a multimedia digital journalism platform in India. It was founded in December 2014 by veteran journalist Palagummi Sainath, former rural affairs editor of The Hindu, author of the book Everybody Loves a Good Drought and winner of over 50 national and international awards^{[citation needed]}.

PARI focuses on rural journalism^[1] and publishes stories, videos and photo stories in numerous categories, including, Farming and its Crisis, Adivasis, Dalits, Women, Healthcare, The Rural in the Urban and Resource Conflicts.^[2] It showcases the occupational, linguistic and cultural diversity of India, and aims to publish stories with detail and authenticity, which provide readers, listeners and viewers with a context to derive information and knowledge from.^[3]

PARI stories are usually translated into various Indian languages^[4] by a team of translators and translation editors across India, most of them volunteers. PARI regularly publishes in 10 languages besides the default English.

Additionally, PARI hosts a free online Library^[5] with a growing collection of reports, surveys and other material relevant to understanding and contextualising rural India. And the site attempts to map the facial diversity across India through its unique FACES^[6] section.^{[self-published source?]}

N. Ram, former editor-in-chief and publisher of The Hindu referred to PARI as "…one of the brightest spots of public-spirited journalism” at the Lawrence Dana Pinkham Memorial Lecture on May 3, 2016.^[7]