भा.प्रौ.सं. गाँधीनगर: उत्कृषटता के 15 वर्षसमाचार


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P. Sainath

Guest Professor

  • BA: Loyola College, Madras, 1977
  • MA: Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1979
  • PhD: University of Alberta at Edmonton, Canada



  • 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