People's Archive of Rural India

People's Archive of Rural India (PARI /ˈpɑːri/) is a digital journalism platform in India. It was founded in December 2014 by veteran journalist, Palagummi Sainath, former rural affairs editor of The Hindu, author of the landmark book "Everybody Loves a Good Drought" and winner of numerous national and international awards. PARI focuses on rural journalism[1] and publishes articles, videos and photo stories in numerous categories including Farming and its Crisis, Things We Do, Adivasis, Dalits and Resource Conflicts[2] PARI's stories are translated in as many as thirteen Indian languages.[3]PARI showcases the occupational, linguistic and cultural diversity of India and covers a countryside that the dominant media usually ignore.[4]

People's Archive of Rural India
Logo of People's Archive of Rural India
Type of site
Digital Journalism
Available inEnglish, Assamese, Urdu, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil
FoundedDecember 2, 2014 (2014-12-02)
Area servedOnline
OwnerCounterMedia Trust
Created byPalagummi Sainath
Namita Waikar
Binaifer Barucha
Sharmila Joshi
Siddharth Adelkar
Zahra Latif
Subuhi Jiwani
Aditya Dipankar
Samyukta Shastri
Sinchita Maji
Jyoti Shinoli
Vishaka George
EditorPalagummi Sainath
URLruralindiaonline.org
CommercialNo
LaunchedDec 24, 2014
Current statusActive

At the Lawrence Dana Pinkham Memorial Lecture on May 3, 2016, N. Ram, Chairman of Kasturi & Sons Ltd, and former editor-in-chief and publisher of The Hindu cited PARI as "one of the brightest spots of public-spirited journalism” [5]

Content

PARI is unique in its focus on and extensive documentation of rural Indian lives and livelihoods.[6] Its coverage draws on the extensive work spanning more than three decades of founder-editor P. Sainath on the agrarian economy and current devastating agrarian and water crisis in rural India. PARI reporters include Jaideep Hardikar, Purusottam Thakur, Parth M. N., Aparna Karthikeyan, Arpita Chakrabarty and Anubha Bhonsle.

The content at People's Archive of Rural India is contributed by volunteers, students, journalists and by PARI fellows. PARI contributors have also included award-winning[7][8] journalists like Madhusree Mukerjee, Priyanka Kakodkar, Shalini Singh and Chitrangada Choudhury.

The archive documents rapidly-disappearing languages like the Saimar language which had only 7 speakers left at the time of publication.[9] This part of a larger project of documenting endangered languages. The "Resources" section of PARI contains curated and credible reports on rural India along with a focus and factoids that PARI's team of researchers produce.

Fellowships

Fellowships are awarded for work on specific regions in India. A PARI fellow spends significant time in fieldwork among the region's people and communities and reports on untold stories from the countryside. [10][11]

Impact

The story on a post office of a village in [Pithoragarh district]], Uttarakhand [12] went viral on social media immediately on publishing. Within 4 days of the article being published, Pitthorgarh finally had its own post office.[13][14]

Stories reported on PARI have been re-published by Economic & Political Weekly,[15], The Wire[16], Scroll.in,[17] BBC Hindi,[18] Times of India,[19] Youth ki Awaaz, Saddhahaq.com,[20] SunTV, and Mathrubhumi Weekly.

Awards

PARI stories have won numerous national and international awards including Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award, The Statesman Award for Rural Reporting and the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize

  • On 18 March 2016, PARI Fellow Purusottam Thakur won the Laadli Media and Advertising Award: Best Investigative Story Award for his unique story on a girls' educational institute [21][8]
  • The film, "Weaves of Maheshwar” by Nidhi Kamath and Keya Vaswani was awarded the Silver Lotus (Rajat Kamal) for the Best Promotional Film at the 63rd National Film Awards 2016[22]
  • On 23 June 2016, PARI received the Praful Bidwai Memorial Award for recording and documenting rural India.[23][24]< The award was presented by noted historian and public intellectual Romila Thapar who cited PARI as “Bold in conceptualisation and innovative in methodology, it uses the tools of digital communication, the practice of data storage, and the principles of good journalism to capture the layered realities of a region that is home to over 800 million people speaking in an estimated 700 languages”.[25]
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References
  1. "Collecting the stories and faces that might otherwise be forgotten". Al Jazeera.
  2. "Sainath's PARI to focus on rural India, narrate untold stories of everyday lives". First Post.
  3. "The Benz and the Banjara". People's Archive of Rural India. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  4. "Documenting India's Villages Before They Vanish". The Atlantic.
  5. "What is special about Investigative Journalism?".
  6. "People's Archive of Rural India". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  7. "Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  8. "Impact and achievement of PARI stories".
  9. "PARI-A archive of rural India". Navhind Times.
  10. "Cover your country". People's Archive of Rural India. Archived from the original on 2016-09-22. Retrieved 2016-08-18.
  11. "Back To The Grass Roots". News Laundry.
  12. "The last post – and a bridge too far". People's Archive of Rural India. 21 June 2016.
  13. "Tweet by Rajdeep Sardesai brings first post office to Uttarakhand village".
  14. "The last post – and a bridge too far".
  15. "The Benz and the Banjara". Economic and Political Weekly. 5 June 2015.
  16. "In Maharashtra's Dombivli, Autorickshaw Drivers Lend Support to Farmers". The Wire. 28 Nov 2018.
  17. Karthikeyan, Aparna. "What happens when Meenakshi from Manamdurai beats a pot 3,000 times". Scroll.in.
  18. पत्रकार, पी साईनाथ वरिष्ठ; लिए, बीबीसी हिन्दी डॉटकॉम के. "केरल: दुनिया का सबसे तन्हा लाइब्रेरियन". BBC हिंदी.
  19. "The Times Group". epaperbeta.timesofindia.com.
  20. Singh, Gurpreet. "A potter's tale: a 100 and counting". SaddaHaq.
  21. "Making history, heading for a hundred".
  22. "Weavers in the studio".
  23. "Search results". Transnational Institute.
  24. "PARI wins the Praful Bidwai Memorial Award for journalism". People's Archive of Rural India. 26 June 2016.
  25. "People's Archive of Rural India (PARI) gets the First Praful Bidwai Memorial Award". South Asia Citizens Web.
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