Daily Archives: 4 September 2007

‘Gentlemen, thank you for coming out’

He is the one-man army targetting Capitol Hill from his apartment in North West Wasshington, D.C. His technique has been called “odious”, “outrageous” and “over the line”. To some he is a hero, a muckraker; to others, he is a pariah. Some say receiving a call from him is like receiving a call from Satan…

‘A media politically free but chained by profit’

The following is the full text of the acceptance speech made by PALAGUMMI SAINATH, the rural affairs editor of The Hindu, while accepting the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award in the Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication category for his “passionate commitment as a journalist to restore the rural poor to India’s national consciouness” in Manila, on…