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November 21-27, 2002

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Visible Work, Invisible Women

P. Sainath has been reporting on the plight of his native India through numerous channels for almost a decade. After leaving his position as an editor in Mumbai, he set out to travel the length and breadth of India's rural areas, reporting on the daily existence of the region's poorest villagers. His reports on ordinary people struggling against tremendous odds -- often exacerbated by local and national authorities -- ran in The Times of India and have since been treated as a journalism classic; the articles were subsequently published in a collected volume, Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India's Poorest Districts, to wide acclaim in 1996. Having received numerous awards for his work (including Amnesty International's Global Human Rights Journalism Prize and an Eisenhower Fellowship), Sainath is coming to Philadelphia to speak about his photography exhibit, "Visible Work, Invisible Women: Women and Work in Rural India," and his continuing work in defense of India's rural poor.

P. Sainath will speak at the opening reception of his exhibit, “Visible Work, Invisible Women: Women and Work in Rural India,” Mon., Nov. 25, 6 p.m., free, public room, Philadelphia Inquirer building, 400 N. Broad St., 215-546-1738. Exhibit runs Nov. 25 and 26, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

—Paul Burress