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Governance by Gagging - P. Sainath

2024 Dr. Hari Sharma Memorial Lecture Governance by Gagging - P. Sainath October 5th - City Centre Branch of Surrey Public Library Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities and South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD) What is the state of media in Modi’s India? How free is the Indian press? Does it help citizens make responsible, informed choices or does it act now as an ideological cheerleader of the state? What are the different ways of gagging free speech and dissent now in play? P. Sainath will discuss these and other questions in his lecture. There will be a question-and-answer session after the lecture. (Palagummi) Sainath is an award-winning writer, journalist, and activist based in Mumbai, India, who serves as founder and editor of People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI), an independent multimedia digital platform showcasing the stories of rural people and everyday life to bear on contemporary Indian politics. As an investigative reporter, teacher, and advocate for rural issues, Sainath has won over 70 national and international reporting awards and fellowships, including the Fukuoka Grand Prize (2021), World Media Summit award (2014), and Amnesty lnternational’s Inaugural Global Human Rights Reporting Prize (2000), as well as the Ramon Magsaysay Award (2007), Asia’s most prestigious prize, often referred to as the ‘Asian Nobel.’ Demonstrating an expansive range on politics, public archives, and storytelling, Sainath’s prize-winning book Everybody Loves a Good Drought (1996) - now in its 61st printing - exploring 1990s-era liberalization through rural lives and work, has remained a non-fiction bestseller by an Indian author for years and was declared a Penguin Classic in 2012. His more recent book The Last Heroes Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom (Penguin Nov 2022) - on India’s last living freedom fighters is headed for its 6th edition and is already out in 8 languages including Punjabi. Sainath has taught journalism at the Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai for 37 years and has held visiting appointments at various institutions including UC Berkeley and Princeton University.