Southeast Asian Studies Council: “The Everyday Lives of Everyday People: Jounalism from below in the digital age. A talk by P. Sainath”

Event time: 
Monday, March 2, 2015 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Luce Hall, Auditorium See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Southeast Asian Studies Council presents:

P. Sainath, Formal Rural Affairs Editor, The Hindu, India: “The Everyday Lives of Everyday People: Jounalism from below in the digital age. A talk by P. Sainath.”

In a 34-year career as a journalist, Sainath – the former Rural Editor of the Hindu – 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). He is the winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 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. Apart from the 40 plus print media awards, two documentary films on his work, ‘Nero’s Guests’ and A Tribe of his Own,’ have between them picked up over 20 awards across the globe.

His latest award, which he received this January 27th, is the World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence 2014. He won its Public Welfare award for exemplary news professionals in developing countries, taking the WMS prize in its inaugural year.
Sainath’s book Everybody Loves a Good Drought (Penguin India, 1996) has remained a non-fiction bestseller by an Indian author for years and was declared a Penguin Classic in 2012.

His latest project, the People’s Archive of Rural India launched on Dec. 20, 2014. It aims at capturing the ‘everyday lives of everyday people’ –their labour, languages, livelihoods, arts, crafts and many other aspects of rural India. This will be a platform that combines video, audio, still photography and print. Public access to the archive will be free. So the reporter, author, photographer, teacher and public speaker now enters yet another arena.

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public