P.Sainath is the Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, India and author of “Everyone Loves a Good Drought”. He has won over 35 global and national awards for his reporting (but has turned down others).
His reporting on hunger, migrations, distress and farmer suicides, has played a key role in the development of public policy and government programmes in rural areas.
Since 2001, an exhibition of his photographs – Visible Work, Invisible Women: Women and Work in Rural India – has toured India and beyond.