When Chandra Subramanian, winner of the Homepreneur Award 2017, heard she was going to get an award in Chennai, she did not hesitate for a moment – ‘I’ll go,’ she said. It would be her first trip alone and her first to the capital city, over 10 hours and two bus journeys away from her
सुबह के चार बज रहे हैं – महुआ का महीना – जब जंगलों में रात-दिन महुआ बीनने (चुनने) वालों का मेला लगा है। सिंगरौली के महान जंगल में भी आसपास के जंगलवासी अपने पूरे परिवार के साथ महुआ बीन रहे हैं। परिवार के बड़े भी, बूढे भी, बच्चे भी, महिलायें और किशोर भी। जंगल में
Revathi Ram, a PARI core team member attended the Chennai program for teachers and students on 23rd July and has shared this narrative photos from the talk. On a Sunday when teachers and students generally relax, SBOA School in Anna Nagar, Chennai witnessed a large number of them gathered at the school’s auditorium. On July
PARI’s Shalini Singh has been awarded the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard – one of the most prestigious journalism fellowships anywhere. The Nieman Fellowships website carries this brief bio of Shalini who is one of the original founding members of the CounterMedia Trust that runs PARI: Shalini Singh is a Delhi-based features reporter. She has worked
Here is a share by Pu. Ko. Saravanan who translated the ten tales of freedom – these are stories and interviews of freedom fighters of India. *** I had once been assigned translation of a piece on the freedom fighter Salihan, by P.Sainath. I then underwent one of the most traumatic phases of my relatively
Since its inception, PARI has steadily been adding information to the archive. : Content at PARI now includes the work of 160 Photographers and 90 Writers. We have articles from 155 districts, photographs from 204 districts and faces from 127 districts, 205 blocks/sub-districts/tehsils. Our article translations cover 13 Indian languages including Mizo. We have 180
This is a recording of a PARI Livestream event held on Sunday, 11th June 2017 at 1900 hrs IST. From farmers being shot dead in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, to those across Maharashtra now out on the streets in protest, to those from Tamil Nadu on hunger strike in New Delhi not so long ago, this has
Dear PARIvar, Sainath will broadcast live on YouTube on Sunday, 11th June 2017 at 7:00 pm IST. Why are our farmers angry? P. Sainath on the latest phase of the agrarian crisis From farmers being shot dead in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh, to those across Maharashtra now out on the streets in protest, to those from
“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” ― Angela N. Blount, Once Upon an Ever After This is what comes to my mind when I look back at the road trip I made. Little did I know that a visit to Thanjavur for official purpose would turn
On a spring night in mid-April, riveting images of India’s obscenely rich and desperately poor flashed on a screen at a packed hall in Stanford University as P Sainath, India’s foremost rural affairs journalist deconstructed inequality in India with jaw-dropping statistics on how Indian billionaires suck the country’s wealth from its poor. Sainath spoke of
