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Tue, Jul 31 P Sainath wins Magsaysay award for journalism By PTI Tuesday July 31, 06:50 PM Manila, Jul 31 (PTI) India's Palagumni Sainath has won the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award, widely regarded as Asia's equivalent of the Nobel prize, for his contributions to journalism, literature and creative communication arts. Announcing this, the Board of Trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) said today that Sainath - who has been writing on social issues like farmers' suicides in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra, is among the seven individuals who have been awarded in recognition of their achievements in various fields. Sainath is being recognised for "his passionate commitment as a journalist to restore the rural poor to India's national consciousness," it said, adding the award will be presented in a ceremony here on August 31. Born in Chennai in 1957, Sainath completed a Master's degree in history before turning to a life of journalism. 'In Everybody Loves a Good Drought,' his bestselling book of 1997, and in hundreds of subsequent articles, Sainath presented his readers with a world that "belied the giddy accounts of India's economic miracle," according to the citation on the journalist by the organisation. Other winners of this year's award are from China, Korea, Nepal, and the Philippines.
