P. Sainath (@PSainath

P. Sainath

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P. Sainath

@PSainath_org

Founding editor @PARINetwork

Joined May 2014

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P. Sainath
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May 28
1/3. They’re back! India’s 224 billionaires have recovered to cross the $1 trillion-mark in terms of cumulative net worth. Heartening to learn from the Forbes live list that as of May 27, all our beloved billionaires have shrugged off the ill-effects of the annoying war in West
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P. Sainath
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Jul 28, 2018
A lot of those we call 'highly educated', weren't highly educated. They were expensively educated.
P. Sainath
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Aug 15, 2021
1/7. Bhagat Singh Jhuggian, 93, is one of India’s last living freedom fighters. Expelled from school, an official circular called him ‘dangerous’ and a ‘revolutionary’ – at age 11! He became a courier for the radical underground. Story link at end of thread. #IndependenceDay2021
P. Sainath
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Sep 9, 2020
1/5. Shocked by Sushant Singh Rajput suicide coverage – compared with that of 330,000 farmer suicides since 1995? It’s about the money. Talk TV is a lucrative revenue model. Yak and gab costs a lot less than good journalism #RheaChakraborty #mediatrial #media #SushantSinghRajput
P. Sainath
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Nov 20, 2021
1/7. Why is it so hard for the media to admit that the farmers at Delhi’s gates represent the largest peaceful democratic protest the world has seen in years – that too, organised at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic? Story link at end of thread. #FarmLaws #FarmLawsRepealed
P. Sainath
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Jul 14, 2024
1/8. Most Indians see the Big Fat Indian Wedding as a national achievement and are not put off by it, according to TV commentary, including on BBC. Really? Did BBC, anyone, do a poll/survey of most Indians? People hit the streets for what they see as a national achievement –
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P. Sainath
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Jun 7, 2023
1/6. ‘Tipu Sultan was the only prince who died fighting the British… With (his death) Indian Independence was extinguished for a century and a half.’ Not quotes from Karnataka’s new government but from a BJP founder-member. Story link at end of thread. #Karnataka #TipuSultan
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P. Sainath
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Aug 14, 2022
1/8. Was Independence the gift of a few Oxbridge elites? As Gandhi put it, not great men, but ‘the people themselves are the cause’ of revolutions. My book The Last Heroes: Footsoldiers of Indian Freedom (Penguin) out in November, looks at 16 such people. #IndependenceDay2022
P. Sainath
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Jun 28, 2022
1/7. Home Minister Amit Shah recently declared that “No one can stop us from writing history anew” (ToI June 11). The outrageous arrest of Teesta Setalvad shows we’re not just rewriting the past. But our contemporary era and present as well. #TeestaSetalvad #MohammedZubair
P. Sainath
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Nov 26, 2020
1/5. Barbed wire, Barricades and Border Security Force to stop farmers from reaching Delhi? Wow! There’s Cooperative Federalism for you. Or is it cooperative feudalism with the subedars of Haryana saving the Dilli Darbar from a peasant uprising? #FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers
P. Sainath
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Apr 12, 2022
1/15. This week marks the 200th anniversary of the great tradition of Indian journalism – the opposite of the petty one that has ruled our media for 30-40 years. Raja Ram Mohan Roy founded the newspaper Mirat-ul-Akhbar on April 12, 1822. #PressFreedom
P. Sainath
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Sep 12, 2020
Swami Agnivesh: a fighter who freed thousands of bonded labourers. His health plummeted after a 2018 physical attack in Jharkhand. Oh! the bravery of those assaulting an unarmed 79-year-old Swami in the name of Hinduism
P. Sainath
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Feb 6, 2021
1/6. Are those noisy Punjabis at Delhi’s gates “rich farmers?” The average monthly income of a farm household (avg. 5.24 persons) in that state was Rs. 18,059. Or a monthly per capita income of Rs. 3,450. (NSS 70th Round). Story link at end of thread. #FarmersProtests
P. Sainath
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Sep 23, 2020
1/5. PM Modi has repeatedly told us that a) he will never allow MSP to die and b) he will double farmers incomes by 2022. Great. So what stops him from moving a 5 paragraph Bill cementing those assurances? Unlike the earlier 3, this Bill would pass unanimously. #FarmBill2020