BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Inequality is a burning issue everywhere\, but how does success ful reporting on inequality happen? In this workshop\, award-winning India n journalist P. Sainath brings his 40 years of experience to bear on an op en discussion of reporting inequality focused on a basic question: how doe s a reporter get people to talk about inequality? Sainath will draw on his experiences at The Hindu—a major English-language daily founded in 1878 a nd one of India's newspapers of record—to help shape a wide-ranging conver sation around investigation. In the process\, Sainath will draw upon his s eminal journalism that brought national and international attention to far mer suicides in India during the 1990s and 20002\, how The Hindu dealt wit h reporting agitations and protests of poor and marginalized communities w hile he was its rural affairs editor\, and how his platform The People's A rchive of Rural India strives to produce stories through the voices and li ved experience of everyday people\, including on climate change. \;The workshop will be followed by a South Asian lunch buffet.Palagummi Sainath is an Indian journalist who focuses on inequality\, deprivation and pover ty\, particularly in rural India. He is the recipient of over 75 national and global awards for journalism. A journalist since 1980\, Sainath became a full-time rural reporter in 1993 and has since spent\, on average\, aro und 270 days a year in India’s poorest regions writing from there for Indi a’s largest newspapers. More recently\, his path-breaking reporting placed India’s ongoing agrarian crisis and farmers’ suicides—over 400\,000 in tw o decades since 1995—on the national agenda. In 2014\, Sainath launched th e People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)\, a unique online project on rura l India\, with its 833 million people\, speaking 780 living languages and a bewildering array of stories\, occupations\, arts\, music\, culture and more. PARI has won 106 journalism awards and honors. Sainath is now the A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. DTEND:20261109T170000Z DTSTAMP:20261010T030041Z DTSTART:20261109T153000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Investigating Inequality: A Workshop with P. Sainath UID:RFCALITEM639271836412018554 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Inequality is a burning issue everywhere\, but how does successful reporting on inequality happen? In this workshop\, award-winning Indian journalist P. Sainath brings his 40 years of experie nce to bear on an open discussion of reporting inequality focused on a bas ic question: how does a reporter get people to talk about inequality?

Sainath will draw on his experiences at The Hindu—a major Engl ish-language daily founded in 1878 and one of India's newspapers of record —to help shape a wide-ranging conversation around investigation. In the pr ocess\, Sainath will draw upon his seminal journalism that brought nationa l and international attention to farmer suicides in India during the 1990s and 20002\, how The Hindu dealt with reporting agitations and pr otests of poor and marginalized communities while he was its rural affairs editor\, and how his platform The People's Archive of Rural India strives to produce stories through the voices and lived experience of everyday pe ople\, including on climate change. \;

The workshop will be foll owed by a South Asian lunch buffet.

Palagummi Sa inath is an Indian journalist who focuses on inequality\, depriva tion and poverty\, particularly in rural India. He is the recipient of ove r 75 national and global awards for journalism. A journalist since 1980\, Sainath became a full-time rural reporter in 1993 and has since spent\, on average\, around 270 days a year in India’s poorest regions writing from there for India’s largest newspapers.

More recently\, his path-brea king reporting placed India’s ongoing agrarian crisis and farmers’ suicide s—over 400\,000 in two decades since 1995—on the national agenda. In 2014\ , Sainath launched the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)\, a unique o nline project on rural India\, with its 833 million people\, speaking 780 living languages and a bewildering array of stories\, occupations\, arts\, music\, culture and more. PARI has won 106 journalism awards and honors. Sainath is now the A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

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