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
Kerala has set up its own people’s archive, a People’s Participatory Portal, called Janaavishkaara. On March 24, 2017, P. Sainath had met the Janaavishkaara team in Chalakudy near Kochi, Kerala, to inaugurate a workshop that put in motion the plan for a people’s participatory portal. The three-day workshop was organised by the Kerala Sahithya Akademi in collaboration with the Jnanodayam
The veteran journalist and writer has, since 2011, been working on a new project: the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI). He talks to Charukesi Ramadurai about recording the stories of everyday people and his hopes for his country’s future. In the 20 years since your book Everybody loves a good drought was published, how
The idea was to publish one ovi, a couplet rendered as a song, everyday, from the Grindmill Songs database along with text and audio. It seemed like a simple enough idea. Just pick one and put it up. How difficult can it be? All I had to do was: read through a collection of 110,000
Jeyabal Chinnathevar is delighted. His favourite sport – jallikattu (bull taming) – will be held on the 1st of February. ‘I fasted for three days in Alanganallur, fighting for the ban on the sport to be lifted,’ he tells me over the phone. I was speaking to him after many months – having done a
Journalism today has completely failed the Lokmanya’s criteria for journalism, P. Sainath said on January 4, on the occasion of the 136 th anniversary of the Kesari in Pune, where he received the Lokmanya Tilak National Journalism Award. During the British raj, the prati sarkar, a parallel government in the then vast Sangli district, robbed