Award for real journalism
Entire journalist community felt happy today. We are proud for announcing prestigious Ramon Magsasysay award 2007 to renewed journalist Palagummi Sainath for journalism. Sainath proved himself by submitting agriculture, rural economy and drought stories with human touch. We can reach the people hearts with rural stories, not always aiming sensational and corruption items. Sainath once again proved it. Don’t we realize now? And tune attitudes regarding the story lines selection.
Sainath presented many stories which are heart touching. Reality is the life for those stories. He feels the problems of the rural people, which are narrated in such a way common reader can make note of it. His stories on Ananthapuram weavers, Andhra Pradesh women and drought are appreciated by every one. He also filed several stories touring Maharastra, Karnataka etc., states. Some of the poverty, agriculture, women based stories main briefings are placed on the blog for our media friends.
Vidarbha’s one-litre-per-cow package
By the Maharashtra government's own count, the 14,221 high-breed cows it gave farmers in Vidarbha add just 1.16 litres each to the milk collection in the region. These cows have cost already indebted farmers over Rs.7.5 crore.
Weaving a life in Anatapur
Families left behind by farmers who committed suicide face up to the odds, fighting for the next generation. "It is all for the children, sir. Our time has gone".
Unwilling parents, unwary orphans
In Anantapur, farm suicides are fewer than they were in 2002. But they still happen and could rise again in this fragile region. As elsewhere, agriculture is plagued by uncertainty.
In Anantapur, farm suicides are fewer than they were in 2002. But they still happen and could rise again in this fragile region. As elsewhere, agriculture is plagued by uncertainty.
Suicides are about the living, not the dead
In society's eyes, Kamlabai is a `widow.' In her own, she's a small farmer trying to make a living and support her family. She is also one of about one lakh women across the country who've lost their husbands to farm suicides since the 1990s.
No place for single women
Once, Andhra Pradesh's top leaders queued up at Bandi Lachmamma's home with promises. The debate on farm suicides hit the headlines when her husband took his life. Years later, she works as a coolie in Anantapur earning much less than the minimum assured by the NREGP - which turns away single women.
Jailhouse talk a fate worse than debt
After a lull of some years, farmers are being jailed for debt in Andhra Pradesh. Even those in drought-hit districts who cannot repay their loans. Farm unions see the banks as driving a dangerous and explosive process which lets off crorepati defaulters but jails bankrupt farmers owing a few thousand rupees.
Falling farm incomes, growing inequities
Falling farm incomes, growing inequities
When many households spend less than Rs.225 a month per person, you really need to think of how people live. On what it is that they live. What can you spend on if the most you can spend is, on average, Rs.8 a day? And if close to 80 per cent of what you spend is on food, clothing and footwear, what else could you possibly buy?
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