A talk by Palagummi Sainath, the 2007 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts, is the Rural Affairs Editor for The Hindu, and contributes his columns to India Together. He writes on poverty in rural areas, international economics and politics, critiques of “corporate-owned” mass media and the aftermaths of globalization in India. In 1993 he began a fellowship working with Times of India and published 84 reports within 18 months about ten poorest districts of five states. The newspaper adopted his methods of reporting and sixty other leading newspapers began running columns on poverty and rural development. Many of Sainath’s reports were reprinted in his book Everybody Loves A Good Drought, which remained India’s number 1 non-fiction bestsellers for more than two years. His work has won praise from the likes of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen who referred him as “one of the world’s great experts on famine and hunger.” Sainath has participated in many international initiatives on communications such as the second and third round table on Global Communications sponsored by the UNESCO and in the UNHCR sponsored World Information Campaign on Human Rights. He is currently a visiting professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism.