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The award-winning development reporter
and photojournalist, Palagummi Sainath, is India's foremost chronicler
of the impact of Globalization on the country's rural populations.
Described by the Nobel Prize-winner, Amartya Sen as "one of the world's
greatest experts on famine and hunger," P. Sainath has worked tirelessly
to expose the devastation inflicted on rural farmers and the broader
population by the so-called neo-liberal economic reforms. He is author
of the best seller, "Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from
India's Poorest Districts", a book credited with significant impact on
drought management, medical and development programs in rural India. He
is currently working as the rural affairs editor of The Hindu. This
lecture is an edited version of a longer presentation delivered at the
Washington State University campus in Vancouver, Washington. The lecture
was sponsored by the Center for Social and Environmental Justice of
Washington State University. P. Sainath spoke at the Washington State
University Vancouver campus on February 25, 2005.
