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).
In 2006-08, Maharashtra in India saw 12,493 farm suicides. That is 85 per cent higher than the 6,745 suicides it recorded during 1997-1999. And the worst three-year period for any State, any time. P Sainath has researched extensively into why this is happening and talks about his work, as well as how this story is reported by the media. This is a recording of the talk he gave at the cij summer school 2010.