Palagummi Sainath

Palagummi Sainath (born 1957) is an Indian journalist and photojournalist focusing on social problems, rural affairs, poverty, and the aftermath of globalization in India. He was rural affairs editor of The Hindu from 2004 to 2014. Amartya Sen has called him "one of the world's great experts on famine and hunger." Sainath has won over 60 national and international reporting awards and fellowships. These include the Fukuoka Grand Prize 2021, the World Media Summit award 2014, the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2007, Amnesty International's Global Human Rights Reporting Prize and the Ramnath Goenka Journalist of the Year award. He has taught journalism for three decades at universities in India, and he was McGraw Professor of Writing in Princeton in 2012.