Our Knowledge Partners

People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)

PARI is both a living journal and an archive under the creative commons, capturing the “everyday lives of everyday people” in rural India by publishing stories, reports, videos, and audios. P. Sainath, Founder Editor of PARI, a writer and journalism teacher, is the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia’s most prestigious prize. He is the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International’s Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in its inaugural year in 2000.
PARI education has engaged with over 180 organisations across India and its rich materials are used by our teachers and children to enhance the teaching-learning process. Our children and teachers have created photo essays for PARI to share the everyday ordinary lives of people living in tribal India.
Under our Lockdown Learning intervention, children performed tasks on the topic of Journalism which were published by PARI. Children learned handling cameras, documentation, the economics of buying and selling, and representation of culture and tradition
Our children documented the rural weekly markets (haat) and covered the lives of people working there.
1. Kadakala haat
2. Jurudi haat

Many of our children’s paintings have been published by PARI:         

1. The World through the Art of Adivasi Children
2. Drums, dreams and drawings
3. Inspired by an un-amputated spirit