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Sainath: Heading for the Cliffs of Singh's India

Znet Article, February, 01 2011 P. Sainath
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One of the most enduring of media-created myths is that of mass suicide amongst lemmings, the little rodents that live mostly in and around the Arctic.

Sainath: India's "Paid News" Scandal Blotted Out by Press Lords

Znet Article, August, 10 2010 P. Sainath
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Presented with a chance to make history, the Press Council of India has made a mess instead. The PCI has simply buckled at the knees before the challenge of 'Paid News.'

Sainath: From Union Carbide to Exxon to BP

Znet Article, June, 16 2010 P. Sainath
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Bhopal marked the horrific beginning of a new era. One that signalled the collapse of restraint on corporate power.

Sainath: Farmers' Suicide Letters

Znet Article, May, 10 2010 P. Sainath
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Seeking authenticity for his letter to the Prime Minister and the President, Ramachandra Raut composed it with care on Rs.100 non-judicial stamp paper. Then he added a few more addressees, including his village sarpanch and the police, in the hope...

Sainath: Nearly 2 Lakh Farm Suicides Since 1997

Znet Article, February, 01 2010 P. Sainath
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There were at least 16,196 farmers' suicides in India in 2008, bringing the total since 1997 to 199,132, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

Sainath: More migrations, new destinations

Znet Article, July, 12 2009 P. Sainath
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"This is the busiest 'labour-travel' railway station in Orissa," says R.C. Behera, smiling. He is Station Manager at Berhampur, Ganjam, from where about 7,000 passengers travel out each day on average. Around 5,500 of those are 'unreserved' travel...

Sainath: Turning Tamil swords into Oriya ploughshares

Znet Article, July, 11 2009 P. Sainath
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One is a member of the Malkangiri District Cricket Association and custodian of its cricket kit. Another, a minor contractor in a public works project. A third runs a tiny shop. They're all pretty rooted in Malkangiri. Not very different from any ...

Sainath: The age of the aam crorepati

Znet Article, June, 20 2009 P. Sainath
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If you are worth Rs. 50 million or more, you are 75 times more likely to win an election to the Lok Sabha than if you are worth under Rs. 1 million.

Sainath: Price of rice, price of power

Znet Article, June, 11 2009 P. Sainath
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Most governments that stressed welfarist measures â€” particularly cheap rice and employment â€” gained in last monthâ€™s elections.

Sainath: Celeb crusades & the death of politics

Znet Article, May, 05 2009 P. Sainath
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The Lok Sabha constituencies of Mumbai averaged over 60 per cent voting between 1957 and 1977. All years of politics, workers' rights, unions, historic policy decisions, rising consciousness and ideological debates.

Sainath: No Issues: a recession of the intellect

Znet Article, April, 25 2009 P. Sainath
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There is little in the media that informs our audiences that we are part of the greatest economic crisis the world has seen in 80 years, the worst since the Great Depression.

Sainath: Contest elections? Sure, on our issues

Znet Article, April, 22 2009 P. Sainath
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In Yavatmal, a large number of women brave immense hardship to live with dignity in the post-farm suicide period. They articulate their demands with clarity.

Sainath: One, Two, Unbuckle My Shoe: The Rise of the Shoe-cide Bomber

Znet Article, April, 09 2009 P. Sainath
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When Muntader al-Zaidi hurled one shoe then another at George Bush in Baghdad last year, he couldn't have foreseen the fallout. Doubtless inspired by the Iraqi journalist, Jarnail Singh, a veteran Delhi reporter, tossed his shoe -- a solid Reebo...

Sainath: HDI Oscars: Slumdogs Versus Millionaires

Znet Article, March, 22 2009 P. Sainath
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It has been the night of the long knives for our burgeoning billionaire population. Its band has just been decimated, falling by more than half from 53 to 24. The latest Croesus Count, also known as the Forbes Billionaires list, makes that much cl...

Sainath: The Largest Wave Of Suicides In History

Znet Article, February, 13 2009 P. Sainath
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The number of farmers who have committed suicide in India between 1997 and 2007 now stands at a staggering 182,936. Close to two-thirds of these suicides have occurred in five states (India has 28 states and seven union territories). The Big 5 â€“...

Sainath: After Mumbai

Znet Article, December, 15 2008 P. Sainath
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Of all the arguments making the rounds after the slaughter of 180 people in Mumbai, the worst is this: that India should learn from the United States about how to respond to such terror. "Look at the USA," goes the refrain, "after 9/11 has there b...

Sainath: Soybean trumps King Cotton in Vidharbha’s regime change

Znet Article, June, 25 2008 P. Sainath
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The shift from cotton to soybean has major implications for agriculture, livelihoods and the future of the Vidharbha region.

Sainath: Fertilizer blues: from market yard to police yard

Znet Article, June, 22 2008 P. Sainath
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“It’s not an easy job,” says Inspector Devidas Chaudhury, officer in-charge of the Washim police station. “But it has to be done. There could be serious trouble otherwise.” Almost every officer and constable at the station, which appears under sie...

Sainath: Polepally protesters sway poll outcome

Znet Article, June, 14 2008 P. Sainath
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They made history by standing as 13 independent candidates fighting the same Assembly seat but contesting for, not against, one another. They did it again on Sunday — by helping defeat the sitting Telangana Rashtra Samithi MLA, even as every one o...

Sainath: 1.5 lakh farm suicides in 1997-2005

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 P. Sainath
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Close to 150,000 Indian farmers committed suicide in nine years from 1997 to 2005, official data show. While farm suicides have occurred in many States, nearly two thirds of these deaths are concentrated in five States where just a third of the co...

Sainath: One farmer’s suicide every 30 minutes

Znet Article, April, 27 2008 P. Sainath
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On average, one Indian farmer committed suicide every 32 minutes between 1997 and 2005. Since 2002, that has become one suicide every 30 minutes. However, the frequency at which farmers take their lives in any region smaller than the country — say...

Sainath: Oh! What a Lovely Waiver

Znet Article, March, 16 2008 P. Sainath
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It was around the distress in regions like Vidharbha and Anantapur that the present ‘farm loan waiver’ was conceived. Growing knowledge of that distress, breaking through even the filters of a media unmoved by the crisis in the countryside, made t...

Sainath: 17,060 Farm Suicides in One Year

Znet Article, January, 30 2008 P. Sainath
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Mumbai: Farm suicides in Maharashtra rose dramatically in 2006, more than in any other part of the country. The state saw 4,453 farmers’ suicides that year, over a quarter of the all-India total of 17,060, according to the National Crime Records B...

Sainath: Discrimination for dummies: V. 2008

Znet Article, January, 18 2008 P. Sainath
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Increasingly, job quotas are cited as ‘discrimination’ — in reverse. But the word discrimination in terms of caste means something very different that the media mostly do not, or choose not to, understand.

Sainath: India 2007: high growth, low development

Znet Article, December, 24 2007 P. Sainath
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The good news is that India’s falling to rank 128 in the Human Development Index of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is not really a decline. Even though it was ranked 126 last year. So say unnamed officials (at least, according to ...