Key facts
- Born
- 1957, Chennai
- State of birth
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Sector
- Journalism & media
- Profession
- Indian journalist
- Gender
- Male
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Biography
Palagummi Sainath is an Indian columnist and author of the acclaimed book Everybody Loves a Good Drought. He has extensively written on rural India, his notable interests are poverty, structural inequities, caste discrimination and farmers protests.
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Timeline
- 2007Awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award
- 2021Awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- हिंदी विकिपीडिया (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- Wikidata (CC0) · 3/5
- Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Thachan.makan