The grindmill songs: making music with stone and verse
The idea was to publish one ovi, a couplet rendered as a song, everyday, from the Grindmill Songs database along…
Jeyabal, of Madurai district in Tamil Nadu, is a cultivator and a swimming instructor
Jallikattu brought me fame!
Jeyabal Chinnathevar is delighted. His favourite sport - jallikattu (bull taming) - will be held on the 1st of February.…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…