P. Sainath, whose intelligent and insightful views on agriculture, caste, media and other matters have been greatly appreciated by countless readers, has been awarded the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts. In selecting him this year's winner, the board of trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation awards committee "recognizes his passionate commitment as a journalist to restore the rural poor to India's consciousness, moving the nation to action."
The 'India Growth Story' has been for over a decade the toast of the West, particularly in
that, unlike China, India is an electoral democracy. The 'India Shining' story has had a far
more nuanced reception at home. Today, even for the elite it carved out and entrenched,
it is a story in some danger. But what was it like for the hundreds of millions of Indians
for whom nine per cent growth did not translate into higher living standards? How did the
liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation that India embraced from 1991 onwards
impact India's poor? What was the impact of the Growth Story on hunger, deprivation,
livelihoods? Why has the country seen a quarter of a million farm suicides between 1995
and 2010? Twenty years after the great leap forward of July 1991 is a good time to look
at those questions.
Palagummi Sainath((born 1957)) is an Indian development journalist - a term he himself avoids,
instead preferring to call himself a 'rural reporter', or simply a 'reporter', focusing on
social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermaths of globalization in India. He
spends much of the year in the rural interior. He is the Rural Affairs Editor for The
Hindu, and contributes his columns to India Together. His work has won praise from the
likes of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen who referred him as "one of the world's great
experts on famine and hunger". In 2007 he was the winner of the Ramon Magsaysay
Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts.
Winner of over 35 global and national awards, his current work the agrarian crisis has produced the largest journalistic body of work ever on the Indian countryside in terms of the problems faced by farming communities.
It is also a body of work that goes far beyond the realm of journalism, capturing issues and complexities that academia and policy makers have failed to.
His Documantry "Nero's Guests" made by Deepa Bhatia is also famous.He didn't claimed copyright for it,he said "There are two kinds of journalists. One kind are journalists, the other are stenographers."
Here is youtube link:
that, unlike China, India is an electoral democracy. The 'India Shining' story has had a far
more nuanced reception at home. Today, even for the elite it carved out and entrenched,
it is a story in some danger. But what was it like for the hundreds of millions of Indians
for whom nine per cent growth did not translate into higher living standards? How did the
liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation that India embraced from 1991 onwards
impact India's poor? What was the impact of the Growth Story on hunger, deprivation,
livelihoods? Why has the country seen a quarter of a million farm suicides between 1995
and 2010? Twenty years after the great leap forward of July 1991 is a good time to look
at those questions.
Palagummi Sainath((born 1957)) is an Indian development journalist - a term he himself avoids,
instead preferring to call himself a 'rural reporter', or simply a 'reporter', focusing on
social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermaths of globalization in India. He
spends much of the year in the rural interior. He is the Rural Affairs Editor for The
Hindu, and contributes his columns to India Together. His work has won praise from the
likes of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen who referred him as "one of the world's great
experts on famine and hunger". In 2007 he was the winner of the Ramon Magsaysay
Award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts.
Winner of over 35 global and national awards, his current work the agrarian crisis has produced the largest journalistic body of work ever on the Indian countryside in terms of the problems faced by farming communities.
It is also a body of work that goes far beyond the realm of journalism, capturing issues and complexities that academia and policy makers have failed to.
His Documantry "Nero's Guests" made by Deepa Bhatia is also famous.He didn't claimed copyright for it,he said "There are two kinds of journalists. One kind are journalists, the other are stenographers."
Here is youtube link: