P. Sainath
P. Sainath is an award-winning independent journalist who writes about rural India. “I cover the people who live at the bottom end of the spectrum,” he says. He is the founder and editor of PARI, the People’s Archive of Rural India. He has taught journalism at the Sophia Polytechnic College in Mumbai for more than 35 years and has held visiting appointments at UC/Berkeley and Princeton. He is the author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts and The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom.