Palagummi Sainath

Palagummi Sainath (born 1957) is an Indian journalist and author of the book Everybody Loves a Good Drought. He has been actively campaigning, throughout his career, over the issues leading up to the farmers' agitations. He backed the Samyukta Ekta Morcha that leads the farmers' agitations in India.He was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2007, for believing that "journalism is for people, not for shareholders", and for writing about "those who have been left behind". 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. He was a senior fellow at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, and was earlier the Rural Affairs Editor at The Hindu until his resignation in 2014.The economist Amartya Sen called him "one of the world's great experts on famine and hunger". His book, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, is a collection of his field reports as a journalist, and focuses on different aspects of rural deprivation in India.