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.
posted by smcg (3 comments total) 24 users marked this as a favorite
 
Thank you for posting this!
posted by sixswitch at 3:14 PM on February 13, 2021


Remarkable.
posted by aramaic at 5:52 PM on February 13, 2021


Some great stuff going on in Kerela as always.
posted by monotreme at 11:17 AM on February 14, 2021


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