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P. Sainath to speak at MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Payal Parekh)
Fri Jun 1 13:04:12 2001
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:03:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Payal Parekh <parekh@pimms.mit.edu>
To: peace-list@mit.edu
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The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia
presents
Countryside in Crisis: Why the
poor hate Market Fundamentalism
P. Sainath
Tuesday, June 5, 2001
6:30pm, Bldg. 4 - 231, MIT
P. Sainath is the author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought. The book which won 13 awards, including the European Commission's Journalism Award, is a chronicle of the living conditions in the ten poorest districts of India. For two years Sainath lived amongst these communities. He traveled across India, often on foot, in hill areas, drought-prone areas, and tribal areas to put the issue of poverty back on the national agenda.
In Everybody Loves a Good Drought Sainath tells "stories of extreme deprivation, but also of the enormous dignity of the poor. Stories of silent and invisible hunger, of incredibly exploitative networks, of unseen and cruel usury, but also of breathtaking, often exemplary survival strategies of the poor."
Sainath is currently working on caste discrimination in India. His work on the Dalits has earned him the Amnesty International's Global Human Rights Journalism prize, the B. D. Goenka Prize for Excellence in Journalism, and the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship.
Cosponsored by:
The South Asia Forum at MIT Seminar
ASHA, MIT
AID, Boston
For further information and directions to the venue contact asur@mit.edu
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<P><BR><FONT size=3D4>P. Sainath is the author of <I>Everybody Loves a =
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Boston</FONT></P>
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