Veteran reporter P. Sainath launches a new platform to portray rural India in all its complexity.
A new development in journalism — the launch of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) — is looking to redefine the contours of the profession as understood and practiced. The brainchild of veteran rural affairs reporter, P. Sainath, PARI, with its focus on rural India’s concerns, marks a significant shift in the tide of contemporary reporting which mainly caters to a consumerist middle class.
Sainath, who was until recently the Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, said in an email interview: "How many publications and channels have a full-time rural beat, or employment, or labour beat? As of now, not a single newspaper in the country has a full time rural editor. The corporate media looks for revenue and ad value in the rural population. And when that doesn’t satisfy them, ignores them."
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