Inaugural Lecture 2016 Documenting Agrarian Distress through the People's Archive of Rural India

<strong>Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies School of Social Sciences</strong> Inaugural Lecture 2016 <strong>Documenting Agrarian Distress through the People's Archive of Rural India</strong> by <strong>P. Sainath</strong> <strong>Chair: Prof. Surajit Mazumdar</strong> <strong>August 23, 2016</strong> P. Sainath a JNU Alumnus, is the founder editor of PARI (People's Archive of Rural India), an online initiative of documenting the everyday lives of everyday people. Earlier he has served as Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu. He was the winner of the Magsaysay Award in 2007and The World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence in Public Welfare reporting in 2014. He has also taught at journalism schools in India and abroad. His book Everybody Loves a Good Drought (Penguin India, 1996) was declared a Penguin Classic in January 2013. His initiative 'Visible Work, Invisible Women' is now on PARI, as a fully curated, online still-photo exhibition.