Ethics of Documenting Labour

Jaideep Hardikar is a Nagpur-based independent journalist and Roving Reporter with PARI. In his nearly three decades in journalism, he has focused deeply on agrarian issues. His persistent ground reportage from Vidarbha and much of central India on farmers’ suicides and distress helped draw the media and government attention to the tragic issue. He has reported on armed conflict in central India and tribal rights issues for The Telegraph. His current reporting centres around climate change and human-wildlife conflict.

Priti David is a Journalist and Teacher. She writes, photographs and films stories on forests, indigenous people, and livelihoods. She has written extensively for People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) on cheetah translocation into Kuno, Madhya Pradesh, on how renewable energy projects are killing the Great Indian Bustard and destroying fragile livelihoods in Rajasthan, and how a declining insect population due to climate change across Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and the Nilgiris, is a dangerous trend for our food security. She began her career with The Economic Times in 1989.

As Executive Editor at the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) she leads a team of in-house and freelance reporters and editors working across the country, documenting news and issues that impact rural populations and migrants from there.