P. Sainath is an Indian journalist, photographer, and author known for his work covering rural poverty in India. He has had a long career in journalism working for major publications like the United News of India and Blitz. Sainath has won numerous awards for his journalism including the Ramon Magsaysay Award. Currently, he founded the People's Archive of Rural India, an online platform focusing on rural issues, and is a senior fellow at Tricontinental Institute for Social Research.

1. Presented by-
Deinichwa Dkhar
Ph. D. 1st year 1st Sem
Dept. of Agril. Extension
GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru

2.  Born into a Telegu speaking family in MADRAS (1957)
Dept. Agricultural Extension, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru
 Grandson of Indian politician and former President
of India V. V. Giri
 Went to Loyola College in Chennai
History degree from Jawaharlal Nehru
University, Delhi

3.  United News of India in 1980
 Work for the BLITZ (a major weekly tabloid from Mumbai)
 First as foreign affairs editor then as deputy editor (…10
years)
 First to win European Commission’s Lorenzo Natali Prize for
Journalism (1995)
 Won the inaugural Amnesty International Global Human
Rights Journalism Prize (2000)
 Awarded United Nation’s Food & Agriculture Organisation’s
Boerma Prize (2000)
 Inspirational Award at the Global Visions Film Festival in
Edmonton, Canada
Dept. Agricultural Extension, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru

4. • Travel around nine drought-stricken states (Cockburn, 2005) in
India during a decade
• Book on “Everybody Loves a Good Drought”
• Awarded the Harry Chapin Media Award in New York (2006)
• Ramon Magasaysay Award (2007) for Journalism Literature
and Creative Communications Art
• After R. K. Laxman (1984)
• Believed “journalism is for people, not for shareholders”
• “Passionate commitment as a journalist to restore the rural poor to India’s national
consciousness”
Dept. Agricultural Extension, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru

5. • Has not accepted government awards
• “ Journalism should not be judged by government and journalist should not accept awards from governments they are covering or
writing about”
• Ramnath Goenka “ Journalist of the Year “Award from Indian Express (2009)
Dept. Agricultural Extension, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru
Indian Documentary
Producers
Association's Gold
Medal (2010)

6.  Currently he is the Coady Chair in Social Justice at St.
Francis Xavier University
Dept. Agricultural Extension, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru
2011 Awarded a Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) honoris causa by the University of Alberta in Edmonton
2012 Served as the McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University
2014 Won the inaugural World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence in Public Welfare for
exemplary news professionals in developing countries
1st June 2015 Became the first ThoughtWorks Chair Professor in Rural India and Digital Knowledge at the
Asian College of Journalism
Photographer and an artist

7. • His exhibition Visible Work,
Invisible Women: Women
and work in rural India has
been seen by more than
600,000 people in India
alone.
• The exhibit toured
internationally and
included a showing at the
Asia Society
Dept. Agricultural Extension, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru

8. • He founded the People's Archive of
Rural India (PARI) in 2014
• An online platform that focuses on social
and economic inequality, rural affairs,
poverty, and the aftermath of
globalization in India
Dept. Agricultural Extension, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru
• A senior fellow at Tricontinental: Institute for Social
Research
• Earlier was the Rural Affairs Editor at The Hindu until
his resignation in 2014

9. called Sainath as "one of the world's great experts on
famine and hunger"
Dept. Agricultural Extension, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru
Amartya Sen
(Economist)
Sainath also backed the Samyukta Ekta Morcha that
leads the farmers' agitations in India

10. Dept. Agricultural Extension, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru

11. Dept. Agricultural Extension, GKVK, UAS, Bengaluru