Aruna Roy

Aruna Roy, a political and social activist, gave up her career in the Indian Administrative Service in 1975 to devote her time to social work and social reform. She has focused her energies on Rajasthan, where she helped establish the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghatan in 1990, a grass roots peoples organization that works for the empowerment of workers and peasants. In 2000, Ms. Roy won the Ramon Magsaysay award for community leadership and for her role in empowering Indian villagers to claim what is rightfully theirs by upholding and exercising the people's right to information.

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Palagummi Sainath is the winner of the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts. (click to read India Together's interview with P Sainath).
Over decades of reporting, he has established himself as among the pre-eminent chroniclers of rural life in our times. His stories, photo-essays, and other work record an India seldom visible to many of us. Sainath received the A.H. Boerma Award in 2001 for his contributions. In July 2004, he was awarded the Prem Bhatia Award for excellence in political reporting and analysis for 2003-04 in recognition of his "outstanding, indeed exceptional, work on the problems of the poorest of the poor, especially in Andhra Pradesh." He is the Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu.

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A-65, Parwana Apartments, Mayur Vihar, Phase-I, New Delhi - 110091. Contact No: ® 91-11-22714291; (O) 011-23311007; (M)91-9810911468 E-mailmailto:annuanand2003@rediffmail.comSenior development journalist, working as Associate Editor, Grassroots, a monthly magazine on human development published by at Press Institute of India, since 1999. Also Associate Editor, Vidura, India’s leading journal on media affairs published by the Press Institute. Was awarded a fellowship by Panos Institute, London, in 1998 to undertake investigative research into women's reproductive health in underdeveloped rural areas. Been a regular writer on issues relating to grassroots, women, child labour, environment and health for the past 15 years. Also a member of guest faculty at the Indian Institute Mass Communication (New Delhi), Makhanlal Chaturvedi University of Journalism (Bhopal) and a host of media education organizations. Previously worked with the Press Trust of India, Aadarsh Patra, Delhi Press group, Chauthi Duniya and Jansatta, New Delhi.