Sainath P.

P. Sainath is the founder editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India, former rural affairs editor of The Hindu, writer and journalism teacher, and the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious prize. He has also won the World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence 2014, in Public Welfare reporting. He was the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International’s Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in its inaugural year in 2000. Sainath has taught at journalism schools in India and abroad, mentoring students as well as training media professionals. For more on Sainath see www.psainath.org.