P Sainath

P Sainath

 

• Palagummi Sainath is an Indian journalist, teacher of journalism.
• He focuses on social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermaths of globalization in India. 
• He was the former Rural Editor of the Hindu.
• He is the winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award (2007), for Journalism Literature and Creative Communications Arts.
• He was the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International’s Global Human Rights Journalism Prize in its inaugural year in 2000. He was also the first Indian reporter to win the European Commission’s Lorenzo Natali Prize for human rights journalism in 1995.
• He has launched an online archive – the People’s Archive of Rural India that aims at capturing the 'everyday lives of everyday people'.
• www.psainath.org
• www.ruralindiaonline.org