LeftWord Books published its first title in March 1999. This year, we complete two decades of publishing. To mark the occasion we have organized 'Telling the Story' - A Talk on Writing by P. Sainath, founder of People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), chaired by activist-scholar Archana Prasad.
Palagummi Sainath (born 1957), one of India’s best-known journalists, is the founding editor of People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) - an archive and living journal of history of rural India. He has lectured and taught at various institutions, including the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Sainath is the author of the acclaimed book Everybody Loves a Good Drought on rural poverty in India. He has won over 40 global and national awards for his reporting (and turned down several, including the Padma Bhushan because, in his view, journalists should not be receiving awards from governments they cover and critique. In 2007 he was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award for his “passionate commitment as a journalist to restore the rural poor to India’s national consciousness.”. Two documentary films on his work, Nero’s Guests and A Tribe of his Own, have received over 20 international awards.
Sainath's most important work from the past decade focuses on India's agrarian crisis, with hundreds of exclusive field reports and news analysis and photographs.
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