People's Archive of Rural India

People's Archive of Rural India

Logo of People's Archive of Rural India
Type of site
 Digital Journalism
Available in English, Assamese, Urdu, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil
Founded December 2, 2014 (2014-12-02)
Area served Online
Owner CounterMedia Trust
Editor Palagummi Sainath
Slogan(s) Everyday lives of everyday people
Website ruralindiaonline.org
Commercial No
Launched Dec 24, 2014
Current status Active

People's Archive of Rural India (PARI, IPA /pɑːrɪ/) (pronounced pāri) is a digital journalism platform in India. Founded by veteran journalist and former Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, Palagummi Sainath, PARI is a volunteer-run rural journalism platform.[1] With more than a thousand volunteers from across India and other countries, PARI specialises in rural labour and the working lives of Indians[2] PARI is a multi-lingual platform that has content in up to ten Indian languages, including English, which is translated and reviewed by volunteers.[3] PARI as online photojournalism interface showcases the occupational, linguistic and anthropological diversity in India.[4]

At the Lawrence Dana Pinkham Memorial Lecture on May 3, 2016. N. Ram, Chairman, Kasturi & Sons Ltd, former Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of The Hindu cited PARI as "one of the brightest spots of public-spirited journalism” [5]

Content

The content at People's Archive of Rural India is contributed by volunteers, students, journalists and by PARI fellows. PARI contributors have included award winning journalists like Madhusree Mukerjee, Priyanka Kakodkar, Anubha Bhonsle, Shalini Singh, Chitrangada Choudhury, Jaideep Hardikar and Purusottam Thakur. PARI also carries articles written by students and volunteers. Fellowships are awarded for work on regions in India. A PARI fellow works on a specific region for a year, spending at least three months full-time in fieldwork amongst the region’s people and communities.[6][7] Contributors also include Guggenheim fellow Madhusree Mukerjee, former editor of Scientific American and writer of the book Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II,[8] Prince Claus Award winner photo artist Dayanita Singh and founding member of CNN-IBN (now CNN-News18) journalist Anubha Bhonsle[9]

The archive documents rapidly disappearing languages like the Saimar language which had only 7 speakers left at the time of publication.[10] "Resources" section of PARI archives searchable reports on rural India like the 2007 Report on Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihoods in the Unorganised Sector by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector This section also has rare, out-of-print books and notable works. On its first anniversary PARI hosted the out of print, difficult to access, 1944 book Famine Over Bengal by the then Hindu correspondent T. G. Narayanan. Based on a first-hand reportage of the Bengal famine of 1943, Famine Over Bengal is a pioneering work of journalism.[11]

The story on Pithoragarh's post office[12] went viral on social media immediately on publishing and was shared by several prominent personalities like Nikhil Wagle and Rajdeep Sardesai as something needing addressing. Union Minister for Communication and Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad took keen interest in the matter. Within 4 days of the article being published, Pitthorgarh finally had its own post office.[13][14]

The content on the online journal has been translated into up to ten Indian languages including English, Assamese, Urdu, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Tamil. Stories reported on the People's Archive of Rural India have been re-published by Economic & Political Weekly,[15] Scroll.in,[16] BBC Hindi,[17] Times of India,[18] Youth ki Awaaz, Saddhahaq.com,[19] SunTV, Mathrubhumi Weekly. All content on People's Archive of Rural India is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives, 4.0 International License[20]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Collecting the stories and faces that might otherwise be forgotten". Al Jazeera.
  2. ↑ "Sainath's PARI to focus on rural India, narrate untold stories of everyday lives". First Post.
  3. ↑ https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/the-benz-and-the-banjara/
  4. ↑ "Documenting India's Villages Before They Vanish". The Atlantic.
  5. ↑ "What is special about Investigative Journalism?".
  6. ↑ "Cover your country". People's Archive of Rural India.
  7. ↑ "Back To The Grass Roots". News Laundry.
  8. ↑ "Churchill's Dark Side: Six Questions for Madhusree Mukerjee".
  9. ↑ "Fellowship: People's Archive of Rural India (PARI)".
  10. ↑ "PARI-A archive of rural India". Navhind Times.
  11. ↑ "T. G. Narayanan".
  12. ↑ https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/the-last-post---and-a-bridge-too-far/
  13. ↑ "Tweet by Rajdeep Sardesai brings first post office to Uttarakhand village".
  14. ↑ "The last post – and a bridge too far".
  15. ↑ http://www.epw.in/journal/2016/24/web-exclusives/benz-and-banjara.html
  16. ↑ http://scroll.in/article/807095/what-happens-when-meenakshi-from-manamdurai-beats-a-pot-3000-times
  17. ↑ http://www.bbc.com/hindi/india/2014/06/140602_lonliest_librarian_p_sainath_rd.shtml?ocid=socialflow_facebook#share-tools
  18. ↑ http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31804&articlexml=Goas-heavyweights-26042015022028
  19. ↑ https://www.saddahaq.com/a-potters-tale-a-100-and-counting
  20. ↑ https://ruralindiaonline.org/pages/copyright/
  21. ↑ "Making history, heading for a hundred".
  22. ↑ "Impact and achievement of PARI stories".
  23. ↑ "Weavers in the studio".
  24. ↑ https://www.tni.org/en/article/praful-bidwai-memorial-award
  25. ↑ https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/pari-wins-praful-bidwai-memorial-award-for-journalism/
  26. ↑ "People's Archive of Rural India (PARI) gets the First Praful Bidwai Memorial Award". South Asia Citizens Web.
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