https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYVLmHdBjPI Name: Palagummi Sainath
Title: Journalist & Founding Editor
Organisation: The People’s Archive of Rural India

Brief profile:
Working journalist. In 2015, he completed 35 years in the profession.
Former Rural Affairs Editor, The Hindu
Author of Everybody Loves A Good Drought (Penguin, 1996)

Palagummi Sainath, in this interview conducted on 31 July 2015 at ENFF, Sao Paulo, Brazil, talked to Lau Kin Chi and Sit Tsui Jade, about his childhood, his university years, and his journalistic investigations into peasant suicide and social issues in India.

THE POLITICS OF HOPE: PEOPLE’S RESILIENCE AND RESISTANCE IN CATASTROPHIC TIMES India: People’s Resilience and Resistance

Jayati GHOSH (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs1IO5_bKSY
Anuradha CHENOY (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u_idNvmwx4 
Palagummi SAINATH (People’s Archive of Rural India, India)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKk1N1NKUqw 

Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University, Global University for Sustainability

Decade without Census data: Governing blind in Amrit Kaal  https://www.deccanherald.com/specials/decade-without-census-data-governing-blind-in-amrit-kaal-1226721.html  M G Devasahayam, Jun 11 2023

In the absence of data, the government makes tall claims about its achievements based on the inputs into its programmes, rather than on the basis of outcomes. Those who question it are dubbed ‘anti-nationals’. Now, there’s even the threat of the government setting up its own ‘fact-checking units’ and to punish those publishing ‘fake news’, when the fact of the matter is that the government itself does not have reliable data on any aspect.