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Countryside in Crisis: Why the poor hate Market Fundamentalism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Samudra Vijay)
Tue Jun 5 11:56:49 2001
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To: sangam-general@MIT.EDU, peace-list@MIT.EDU
From: Samudra Vijay <samudra@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:56:40 -0400
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
