Palagummi Sainath
Palagummi Sainath | |
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Sainath in Attappadi, Kerala | |
| Born | 13 May 1957 Madras, Madras State, India |
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| Occupation | Journalist |
| Notable work | Everybody Loves a Good Drought |
| Relatives | V. V. Giri (grandfather) |
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| Website | psainath |
Palagummi Sainath (born 13 May 1957) is an Indian columnist and author of the acclaimed book Everybody Loves a Good Drought. He has extensively written on rural India, his notable interests are poverty, structural inequities, caste discrimination and farmers protests.
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. 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.
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". 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.