People's Archive of Rural India
February 13, 2021 10:57 AM Subscribe
Can a project's success be judged on the basis of its never being completed? Yes, if it's a living archive of the world's most complex countryside. [...] It means an undertaking unprecedented in scale and scope, utilising myriad forms of media in audio, visual and text platforms. One where the stories, the work, the activity, the histories are narrated, as far as possible, as far as we can manage, by rural Indians themselves. By tea-pickers amidst the fields. By fishermen out at sea. By women paddy transplanters singing at work, or by traditional storytellers. By Khalasi men using centuries-old methods to launch heavy ships to sea without forklifts and cranes.
The about page written by P Sainath, the Founder Editor of PARI.
Previously-ish, because picking just one or two or twenty posts from this site wouldn't be enough.
The about page written by P Sainath, the Founder Editor of PARI.
Previously-ish, because picking just one or two or twenty posts from this site wouldn't be enough.
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