TISS Talk: P. Sainath on why it’s vital to talk about rural India
Agrarian crisis
In India, Farmers Face a Terrifying Crisis
On March 6, about 40,000 subsistence farmers and landless peasants, many from impoverished indigenous tribes, marched to Mumbai from Nashik, a city 112 miles northeast of India’s commercial capital. The sea of humanity flooding the […]
Farmer Suicides
‘We are celebrating inequality’: P Sainath on his vision for India at the DS Borker Memorial Lecture
A measure of P Sainath’s popularity is 50 people sitting cross-legged on the stage to make room for a 100 more who were pushing in at the door of the India International Center on Wednesday […]
Media
In Gauri Lankesh’s Killing, the Murder Is the Message
“If they say they are unable to write, let them first stop writing. We will then see.” So spoke Mahesh Sharma, Union minister of state for culture, in October 2015, mocking the ‘award wapsi’ movement […]