IIT Gandhinagar | P. Sainath

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
- Adjunct Faculty, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, India, (2000-present)
- Trained large numbers of rural journalists in very backward districts of India and continue to hold regular workshops for stringers and reporters in such regions. Focus in recent years has been on in-the-field training of rural journalists, for instance in Kalahandi, Bolangir and Nuapada (among many other places), (Since 1993)
- Journalism Professor (Visiting) at Sophia Polytechnic,
  Mumbai, India. Over 1,000 students from that institution alone presently in
  diverse branches of the media, (1986-87- present)

Awards

Year	Institution	Name of Award (and criteria as stated in the official citations)
2015	Coady Chair in Social Justice University of St. Francis Xavier, Antigonish,Nova Scotia	Distinguished contribution to Social Justice as a journalist
2015	The Loyola Prize, Loyola College, Chennai	Most distinguished alumnus
2015	ThoughtWorks Chair Professor in Rural India & Journalism, Chennai	Bringing rural reporting to digital platforms
2015	World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence for exemplary news professionals	For outstanding reporting on the water crisis
2015	Visiting Professor South Asian Studies Princeton University	To teach special courses on Development and Inequality
2012	University of Princeton, NJ, USA	McGraw Professor of Writing, Fall Semester
2012	The Malati and N.R. Chendur Trust	N.R. Chendur Jagati award for pioneering contribution to journalism
2011	University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada	Honorary Doctor of Letters (D.Litt), the University’s highest honour
2011	Amnesty International	Movies that Matter Festival Honour for “human rights defenders who have made extraordinary contributions and sacrifices.”
2010	Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi Trust, Rae Bareilly	Ram Manohar Tripathi Prize for Public Service Journalism
2010	MIT Group, Pune	Bharat Asmita Award For outstanding contribution in the field of journalism
2009	The Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Journalism	Journalist of the Year For reporting on India’s Agrarian Crisis
2009	Samaj Prabodhan Sanstha (Institute for Social Awakening)	Krantiagrani Puraskar For outstanding contribution in the field of journalism
2008	Graduate School of Journalism, Berkeley, California	The Nirupama Chatterjee Fellowship
2008	The Dada Undalkar Foundation	From Maharashtra’s last living freedom fighters for “putting agrarian distress on the national agenda.”
2007	Ramon Magsaysay Foundation. Manila Literature & the Creative Communication Arts	Ramon Magsaysay Prize for Journalism, Literature and Communication For “passionate commitment as a journalist to restore India’s rural poor to national consciousness.”
2006	Harry Chapin Media Award: Judge’s Prize, New York, U.S.A.	For work “that focuses on the causes of hunger and poverty,” including “work on economic inequality and insecurity, unemployment, homelessness, domestic and international policies and their reform…”
2004	Chattisgarh Labour Institute & Chattisgarh Mukti Morcha	Shaheed Niyogi Memorial Journalism Award for writings on Labour & Working People
2004	Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust	Prem Bhatia Journalism Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting & Analysis
2003	“Grassroots Story of the Month” prize from Press Institute of India	For reporting on migrant labourers
2003	Asian Leadership Programme of the International House of Japan and Japan Foundation Asia Centre	Asian Leadership Fellow
2002	Global Visions Film Festival. Edmonton, Canada	Global Vision’s Inspiration Award (with filmmaker Joe Moulins)
2002	Trinity College, Hartford Ct. U.S.A.	Visiting McGill Professor Spring 2002
2001	Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations	The A.H. Boerma Prize for “work of international importance in addressing the issues of hunger.”
2000	Amnesty International	Global Human Rights Journalism Prize. First winner, inaugural year of the prize.
2000	B. D. Goenka Foundation (Indian Express Group of newspapers)	B. D. Goenka Prize for Excellence in Journalism
2000	Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships	Eisenhower Fellowship
1999	SAIS-Novartis Award	SAIS-Novartis award for Excellence in International Journalism (given to those in the top ten shortlist made by a panel at the SAIS, Johns Hopkins).
1998	Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund	Nehru Fellowship for work on Dalits
1998	University of Iowa	Distinguished Visiting Professional
1998	Human Rights Education Movement of India, Chennai	Human Rights Award: for Journalism strengthening Dalit Human Rights
1996	Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia	Senior Divisional Fellow. Division of Humanities. In recognition of work on rural India
1995	European Commission, Brussels	EC’s Lorenzo Natali prize for journalism “that stands out for its defence of human rights and of democracy as vital elements of social and economic development”
1995	National Centre for South Asian Studies, Melbourne	National Media Fellow. In recognition of journalistic work on rural India
1995	People’s Union for Civil Liberties, New Delhi	PUCL Journalism for Human Rights Award .for work appearing in The Times of India in 1994. Awarded for stories on “ecological refugees”
1995	V.V.Giri Centenary Award, New Delhi	For “outstanding work on rural unorganised labour”
1995	Ashoka Foundation International	In recognition of work — and to promote new ideas in journalism
1994	The Statesman, Calcutta	The Statesman Award for Rural Reporting. For work appearing in The Times of India in 1993
1994	Foundation for Humanization, Bombay (publishers of Humanscape magazine)	Humanscape Award for outstanding achievement in the field of journalism
1993	Sri Raja-Lakshmi Foundation, Madras ( A four-award combination: one presented in India, three in the USA)	Raja-Lakshmi Award in recognition of “forceful contribution to the profession, versatility and for representing the finest values in Indian journalism, humanism, democracy and social justice”
1992	Times of India Fellowships Council	Times Fellowship Journalism Award for project on India’s ten poorest districts
1991	All India Small & Medium Newspapers Federation, New Delhi	National Media Award for outstanding achievement in journalism
1991	L.V. Ramaiah Foundation, Madras	L.V.R. Award for professional excellence
1984	Graduate School of Journalism, University of W. Ontario, Canada	Distinguished International Visitor at the Graduate School of Journalism
1981	United News of India, New Delhi	Reporter of the month

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