Description: (Indian Journalist and Author of the Book 'Everybody Loves a Good Drought')
Palagummi Sainath is an acclaimed Indian columnist and author, best known for his book "Everybody Loves a Good Drought." He has extensively written about rural India, with a focus on poverty, structural inequities, caste discrimination, and farmers' protests. In 2014, he founded the People's Archive of Rural India (PARI), an online platform addressing social and economic inequality, rural affairs, and the impact of globalization in India. Sainath was a senior fellow at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and previously served as the Rural Affairs Editor at The Hindu. He has received numerous awards for his journalism and is highly respected for his expertise on famine and hunger. "Everybody Loves a Good Drought" is a collection of Sainath's field reports as a journalist, shedding light on various aspects of rural deprivation in India.