I first came to know about caterpillar fungus from newspaper reports of its seizure. There was occasional news that Uttarakhand police seized caterpillar fungus or locally called ‘keeda jadi’, valued…
On Feb 18th 2018, Rahul M received the Parigi Hanumantha Rao journalism award for 2017-2018, for his stories published in PARI. Hanumantha Rao worked as a journalist in 1960s and 1970s from…
Parth M.N, a prolific reporter, and PARI Fellow was awarded by the Rotary Club Delhi for his articles on farmers in Marathwada that appeared on PARI. The award was presented to…
Vishnu Harikumar, a first-year student at the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) emailed P.Sainath with a request - a short piece of writing for their college magazine, Terra Firma, which…
A woman looses her husband, a farmer who committed suicide. So she moves in with her mother in a different village than her husbands. She is eligible for a single…
What made you take up rural journalism? To be honest, it kind of happened automatically. Reading "Everybody loves a good drought" by P. Sainath made me feel I could do…
Professor Reetika Khera is a development economist. Her work on the implementation of welfare schemes has deepened our understanding of India's social policy interventions. The time period in which she…
Sanket Jain is a reporter with PARI. He has recently published the first two of a series of photo-sketch signature pairs that will go on to span 300 villages in…
Let’s pause what we are doing and pay attention to what the farmers are saying on #FarmersDay from across the country. Bhanwar Lal Saran , farmer from Barmer district has…
Srimathi K. Meenakshi A tribute to the award winning Ghatam maker from Tamil Nadu by Aparna Karthikeyan It is very sad news: Shrimathi K. Meenakshi, award winning Ghatam maker, died…