|
DailyGoodFor the last 27 years, DailyGood newsletters have offered a daily email that inspires you to respond to life with creativity and kindness. To join a community of 149,141 subscribers, subscribe here. |
Jul 25, 2006
"The best journalism has always come from dissidents. There's no such thing as a good establishment journalist, only good stenographers." --P. Sainath
Journalism for the People
He spends nine months of every year living in the poorest districts of India -- and then writes with a passion about the problems he witnesses first-hand. Award-winning journalist P. Sainath is credited with having fundamentally changed the understanding of poverty in India, and for playing a significant role in redefining it worldwide. Sainath reports on ordinary people struggling against tremendous odds are treated as journalism classics, and his work is respected for its ring of authenticity and the author's own integrity -- he hasn't touched a cent of the royalties from his 1999 classic "Everybody Loves a Good Drought". Instead, he used the money to fund small-town reporters writing on marginalized people.
BE THE CHANGE
Sainath says that India has a case of 'invisible hunger', where there are no measurable accute famines but the kids are still severly mal-nourished. Talk to a friend about the 'invisible' issues of today.
