Palagummi Sainath

P. Sainath ( Palagummi Sainath; * 1957 in Madras) is an Indian journalist.

Life

P. Sainath is the grandson of the politician VV Giri. He describes himself as a reporter and photojournalist with a focus on the social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the impact of globalization on India. The Indian economist Amartya Sen calls him one of the " most important experts in the field of famine and hunger ".

1993 Sainath began with the research on poverty. On foot and by a variety of means of transport he arrived in the ten poorest districts of India. He put over 100,000 km across India back, which 5000 km on foot .. His experiences and insights he finally in his book " Everybody Loves a Good Drought " on paper. More than two years remained of these titles on various Indian nonfiction bestseller list at number one, until he was finally included in the " Penguin India 's all-time best sellers ." The book is now in its 31st edition. A translation into German was in 2012 under the title: "Poverty - a good deal. Reports from India "instead.

Awards

In 2007 he was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award -. He received this " Asian Nobel Peace Prize " in the category " Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts ."

He has also received the 40 national and international journalism awards and fellowships in 30 years. These included the prestigious Raja - Lakshmi Award from Sri Raja - Lakshmi Foundation, Chennai, in 1993, the European Commission's Lorenzo Natali Prize, 1994, an award for his contribution to human rights in 2000, of pages of Amnesty International and 2009 was he honored by the newspaper "The Indian Express " Ramnath Goenka Award as the "Journalist of the Year". In June 2011, P. Sainath from the University of Alberta honorary doctorate bestowed.

Lecturers, teaching, international cooperation

In 1984 he was a lecturer at the University of Western Ontario and in 1988 lecturer at the University of Moscow. In 2008 he was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley at the Graduate School of Journalism. He worked on the subject of Global Communications, both with UNESCO (1990 and 1991 ) as well as with the UNHCR -sponsored " World Information Campaign on Human Rights " (1991) together.

Movies

  • Nero's Guests (India, 2009, 52 min. ) Director: Deepa Bhatia
  • Sainath, P. ( 1996) Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-025984-8
  • Sainath, P. (2012 ) Poverty - a good deal. Reports from India. Draupadi -Verlag, ISBN 978-3-937603-69-8
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