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P. Sainath

Scholar-in-Residence, Humanities and Social Sciences

  • BA (History): Loyola College, Madras, 1977
  • MA (History): Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1979
  • Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) degree honoris causa: University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, 2011
    D.Litt: St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2017

Email: p.sainath -AT- iitgn.ac.in

Website : https://psainath.org/about-p-sainath/

Office: AB 6/317


  • Selected Publications

    1. Book: Everybody Loves a Good Drought. Stories from India’s poorest districts Penguin, India 1996. UK edition, Headline, 1998. Also published in Odiya, Marathi, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Swedish, Finnish and German.

    2. In 2012, the publishers declared the book a ‘Penguin Classic’ and issued a special edition with the old classic Penguin cover of the 1960s. Meanwhile, the book is in its 43rd print and remains a big seller.

    3. Chapter: Mass Media – but where are the masses? In book: Bridging the gap. Eds: Latha Pillai & Babu P. Remesh. SAGE, New Delhi, UK, USA 2011.

    4. Chapter: Why the United States got it wrong. In book: Mumbai Post 26/11. An alternate perspective. Eds: Ram Puniyani & Shabnam Hashmi. SAGE, New Delhi 2010

    5. Published Lecture:India in the Age of Inequality: Farm crisis, food crisis and the media.

    6. Second B.M. Pugh Memorial Lecture 2009. National Council for Educational Research & Training (NCERT), New Delhi.

  • Work Experience

    • Journalism Professor (Visiting) Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai, India. Over 1,000 students from that institution alone presently in diverse branches of the media, (1986-87- present)
    • Adjunct Faculty Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, India, (2000-present)

Research Interests

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