Talk on rural India issues at Jubilee Hills

Manthan in association with Annapurna International School of Film and Media is organising a talk on ‘People’s Archive of Rural India’ with P Sainath, Indian journalist on January 19 at Annapurna Studios from 4pm onwards. P Sainath, Indian journalist who focuses on social and economic inequality, deprivation and poverty, particularly in rural India. 

People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) is a multimedia, free access digital space – the only website dedicated to rural India – that is both, a contemporary journal and a living archive. In a media driven by celebrity coverage, PARI covers the everyday lives of everyday people. It’s the one place you can learn about the agrarian crisis from those worst affected by it.

Building a national legacy treasure is also PARI’s mandate – the only site recording the lives and testimonies, for instance of India’s last living freedom fighters. The site hosts the largest database of songs composed and sung by poor women in Indian languages. It reports and documents the lives of 833 million rural Indians: their skills, labour, livelihoods, fears and hopes, and their changing lives. It does this in up to 13 languages.

What: Talk 
Where: Annapurna Studios, Jubilee Hills
When: January 19 from 4pm