P. Sainath honoured with Lokmanya Tilak National Journalism Award
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…
P. Sainath to receive the Tilak National Journalism Award
The Kesari-Maratha Trust, along with the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, has awarded the Lokmanya Tilak National Journalism Award for this year to P. Sainath, founder editor of the People’s Archive of…
The best of 2016 at PARI
This year has been one of dramatic growth at PARI. We have seen our stories picked up by other publications. We have seen problems finding resolution as a result of…
The Cook’s Credit Cards
This is a guest post by Anirban Mitra. Anirban Mitra is a molecular biologist and Science teacher, from Kolkata. Golok (or as I call him in Bengali, Golok-da), our cook…
Welcome to the PARIvar: Reflections from a newcomer to the People’s Archive of Rural India
It occupies an unassuming fifth floor apartment just off the Western Express Highway, on a leafy lane where autowalas routinely park to nap. There’s the front room with its oversized…
There is no change to be had for love. Or money.
I was sitting in my brother's house, in Trichy, and asking him nicely if he'll lend me some money. He immediately did. 'Do you have any change?' I asked, knowing…
Public Intellectuals Spotted at Privatized Institution
This is an event review of a talk P. Sainath delivered at the Connecticut College, written by Aparna Gopalan for “The College Voice” – Connecticut College’s independent student newspaper since…
Ganga Devi, 1987-88 Madhubani style
Rohit Gupta has a keen interest in the history of mathematics and science and shared this image of a traditional Indian diagram. Snake diagram for worship on Nagapanchami festival (Ganga…
P. Sainath rediscovers the “Prati Sarkar”
This is the translation of Loksatta's coverage of P. Sainath's piece on Captain Bhau and the Toofan Sena. Sainath’s story seeks to find out what happened to these freedom fighters…
Coming soon: The dance of the false-legged horse
It was raining so hard, the roads had turned into rivers. The taxi driver had a lot of difficulty finding the house. For a moment, he suggested turning back. Am…