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Palagummi Sainath

P. Sainath is the Rural Affairs Editor for The Hindu, and contributes his columns to India Together. He writes on poverty in rural areas, international economics and politics, critiques of "corporate-owned" mass media and the aftermaths of globalization in India. In 1993 he began a fellowship working with Times of India and published 84 reports within 18 months about the ten poorest districts of five states. The newspaper adopted his methods of reporting and sixty other leading newspapers began running columns on poverty and rural development. Many of Sainath's reports were reprinted in his book Everybody Loves A Good Drought, which remained India's number 1 non-fiction bestseller for more than two years. Sainath has participated in many international initiatives on communications such as the second and third round tables on Global Communications sponsored by UNESCO and the UNHCR sponsored World Information Campaign on Human Rights. He is the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts.