People's Archive of Rural India

It’s ten years since PARI was officially launched on December 20, 2014. Our biggest achievement? We’re still here. A piece on PARI's evolution by @PSainath_org ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/pa…

The LPG crisis is a time to reflect on the haves and have nots of Indian society.

Indravati Jadhav from Nagpur cooked for years on an open wood and coal stove. Today, she has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease — restricted airways, chronic cough, damaged lungs. "My lungs have become useless by cooking food on the open stove." ruralindiaonline.org/article/in-the…

The fear of an LPG shortage is gripping India. Long queues of anxious customers outside refilling stations. But many Indians have never used LPG to cook, relying instead on dung cakes and firewood. These stories from our archives put it in context: #lpgcylindershortage

My father often tells me: 'You cannot work under the hot sun and on the hard ground like me. Study what you love. Don’t worry about the cost, pursue it. Get a good job.'

I ask my father why he chose this job. He tells me that he had worked in a leather factory for five-six years. Once that closed down, he worked in agriculture, but the income was too little. We have our own one-acre land, bought by our grandparents that we farm.

ruralindiaonline.org/article/drilli… #paristories K. Mukesh from the Government Model School in Vellore district of Tamil Nadu looks at his father’s life at the stone quarry through his lens

“I don’t have the energy to check if my kids go to school or not. We have put off the surgery because if something happens to me, my kids would, in a way, be orphans.”

Indravati Jadhav needs surgery if she hopes to get better, but it is risky. Her husband is often in an inebriated state, and shows up at the house every 10-15 days. She is most fearful for her children.

ruralindiaonline.org/article/in-the… Indravati Jadhav suffers from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease a potentially fatal condition causing restricted airflow in the lungs, breathing difficulties and, most often, a chronic cough that may eventually damage the lungs. story by @parthpunter

P. SAINATH, Journalist and Founder-Editor, PARI, will deliver the 12th BG Verghese Memorial Lecture on FREEDOM OF THE PURSE & THE AI OF THE AFFLUENT March 20, 6 PM CD Deshmukh Auditorium IIC, Delhi @PSainath_org

First of my "state of rural health" series for @PARInetwork is out today. It is about 2 teenage girls who became besties after meeting at a local exorcism ritual in rural Betul, M.P Read? #MentalHealth ruralindiaonline.org/article/of-doc…