[Peace-discuss] Photo Exhibit and Talk on International Women's Da

[Lisa Chason]

Dear Friends,

On the occasion of International Women's Day (March 8), we invite you to
an evening with P. Sainath, one of Asia's leading journalists. 

On March 8, 2005, Sainath will deliver a public lecture titled, "When
farmers die: The Agrarian Crisis, Farmer Suicides and The Media". The
same day, there will also be an exhibition of photographs by P. Sainath.
Details follow:

1) Visible Work, Invisible Women: Women & Work in Rural India
[An exhibition featuring Sainath's photographs from ten states across
India focusing entirely on the poor rural women and their massive yet
unacknowledged contribution to the Indian economy.]

Venue: Grainger Engineering Library - Grand Gallery (Second Floor)
Date & Time: March 8th, 2005; noon - 9:00 PM

2) "When Farmers Die: The Agrarian Crisis, Farmer Suicides and The
Media" [Talk by Sainath]

Venue: Grainger Engineering Library - Commons (Second Floor)
Date & Time: March 8th, 2005; 7:00 PM

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About P Sainath:
P. Sainath is one of Asia's leading journalists, and has written
extensively about issues such as poverty and the effects of
industrialization on India. He has spent several years in the poorest
districts in India, reporting on the daily struggles of the citizenry,
and has covered everything from agriculture subsidies to starvation
deaths. His work on the livelihoods of India's rural poor has changed
the nature of the development debate in South Asia. Nobel Laureate
Amartya Sen describes him as "one of the world's greatest experts on
famine and hunger".

Sainath is the author of the book, "Everybody Loves a Good Drought" (a
first-hand account of the lives of the Indian poor), and Rural Affairs
Editor of The Hindu, one of India's premier English language newspapers.
He has won numerous awards including the Peoples Union of Civil
Liberties Journalism for Human Rights Award in 1994, Amnesty
International's first-ever Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in
2000, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization's Boerma
Journalism Prize in 2001 (the most important award in development
journalism) and many more. A collection of his articles is available at
http://www.indiatogether.org/opinions/psainath

Describing Sainath's work, University of California journalism lecturer
Conn Hallinan says, "He does the kind of reporting American journalists
only think about doing. I don't know anybody who is better at it."
Sainath's work in India's poorest districts (and more recently, in the
tsunami-hit areas in South India) gives him a perspective that most of
us lack. His talk will appeal to a diverse audience of budding
engineers, environmentalists, journalists, sociologists and activists.

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Jan Nederveen Pieterse 
Email jnp at uiuc.edu

 

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