People's Archive of Rural India
Logo of People's Archive of Rural India
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Type of site
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Digital Journalism |
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| Available in | English, Assamese, Urdu, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Tamil |
| Founded | December 2, 2014 |
| Area served | Online |
| Owner | CounterMedia Trust |
| Editor | Palagummi Sainath |
| Slogan(s) | Everyday lives of everyday people |
| Website | ruralindiaonline |
| Alexa rank | 54,863 (India, July 2017[update]) |
| 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. With more than a thousand volunteers from across India and other countries, PARI specialises in rural labour and the working lives of Indians.PARI is a multi-lingual platform that has content in up to ten Indian languages, including English, which is translated and reviewed by volunteers.PARI, as an online photojournalism interface, showcases the occupational, linguistic and anthropological diversity in India.
At the Lawrence Dana Pinkham Memorial Lecture on May 3, 2016, N. Ram, Chairman of Kasturi & Sons Ltd, and former peditor-in-chief and publisher of The Hindu cited PARI as "one of the brightest spots of public-spirited journalism”
PARI provided a comprehensive documentation of the agrarian crisis in India as documented by Sainath, Jaideep Hardikar, Aparna Karthikeyan and Priyanka Kakodkar. PARI is unique in its focus on and extensive documentation of rural lifestyles, economics and crises in India. Its coverage ranges from the detailed three decade work of veteran journalist and founder-editor P. Sainath on the agrarian economy and current devastating agrarian and water crisis in rural India, to the award-winning works of Aparna Karthikeyan on vanishing rural lifestyles, Jaideep Hardikar on agrarian distress and environmental crisis in Central India, Priyanka Kakodkar on documentation of farmer suicides in Maharashtra, Shalini Singh on systematic environmental destruction by illegal mining to Purusottam Thakur and Chitrangada Choudhury on the lives, occupations and struggles of the tribal populations of Orissa and Chhattisgarh.
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