As a free-lance journalist and rural affairs editor of The Hindu, Sainath has taken a different path. Believing that "journalism is for people, not for shareholders," he has doggedly covered the lives of those who have been left behind.
As a free-lance journalist and rural affairs editor of The Hindu, Sainath has taken a different path. Believing that "journalism is for people, not for shareholders," he has doggedly covered the lives of those who have been left behind.
An Indian author who creatively and cleverly fused indigenous oral histories with contemporary events to explore the bitter and often bloody relationship between tribal communities and India's domineering classes and systems
An Indian author who creatively and cleverly fused indigenous oral histories with contemporary events to explore the bitter and often bloody relationship between tribal communities and India's domineering classes and systems
A master of the raga who has revealed its beauty to those outside of India by creating new music for dance, radio and films, composing hundreds of songs in both the folk and classical traditions and bringing sitar music to the West
A master of the raga who has revealed its beauty to those outside of India by creating new music for dance, radio and films, composing hundreds of songs in both the folk and classical traditions and bringing sitar music to the West
An ombudsman who is affirming the right and duty of every citizen to initiate and secure redress and who has shown that a conscientious, resolute writer can strengthen public morality
An ombudsman who is affirming the right and duty of every citizen to initiate and secure redress and who has shown that a conscientious, resolute writer can strengthen public morality