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<h2><a id="26227" linktype="page">Best of PARI in 2023</a></h2><p></p><p>We completed nine years of reporting on the everyday lives of everyday people. The year in focus</p><h5>December 23, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/priti-david/">Priti David</a></h5><p></p>

Best of PARI in 2023

<h2><a id="26090" linktype="page">In 2023: lines, verses and voices</a><br/></h2><p>Poetry in PARI is a selection of the creative expressions of everyday people. These are the voices of truth and cries for justice. The struggle of farmers, distress of migrants, daily lives of rural women, movements for Adivasi rights and more find space here. Accompanied by artistic illustrations, the poems express anger and anguish and also the lyricism of hope</p><h5>December 24, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/pratishtha-pandya/">Pratishtha Pandya</a>, <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/shubhankar-das-joshua-bodhinetra/">Joshua Bodhinetra</a> and <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/archana-shukla/">Archana Shukla</a></h5>

In 2023: lines, verses and voices

<h2><a id="26162" linktype="page">The PARI Library: more than just data</a></h2><p>Hundreds of reports and surveys, thousands of words were archived in the Library during the last 12 months, and each one supporting and validating issues of justice and rights</p><p></p><h5>December 25, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/pari-library/">PARI Library</a></h5><p></p>

The PARI Library: more than just data

<h2><a id="26114" linktype="page">In 2023: Editors&#39; choice of PARI Films</a></h2><p>From heritage libraries, to renewable energy, Dokra art, to Alphonse mango farmers, we added a wide variety of films to our gallery section. Sit back and watch the action unfold!<br/></p><p></p><h5>December 26, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/shreya-katyayni/">Shreya Katyayini</a>, <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/sinchita-maji1/">Sinchita Maji</a> and <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/urja/">Urja</a></h5><p></p>

In 2023: Editors' choice of PARI Films

<h2><a id="26205" linktype="page">In 2023: PARIBhasha builds a people’s archive in peoples’ languages</a></h2><p>The 14 Indian languages that PARI stories are published in – often simultaneously – is evidence of the website’s unique space as a multilingual platform of journalism. But that’s only part of the story…read on to find out more on PARIBhasha<br/></p><p></p><h5>December 27, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/pari-bhasha-team/">PARIBhasha Team</a></h5><p></p>

In 2023: PARIBhasha builds a people’s archive in peoples’ languages

<h2><a id="26164" linktype="page">In 2023: Writing with light</a></h2><p>Thousands of images telling myriad stories appeared through the year on PARI. Here are some which took us right into the pulsing heart of rural India<br/></p><p></p><h5>December 28, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/binaifer-bharucha/">Binaifer Bharucha</a></h5><p></p>

In 2023: Writing with light

<h2><a id="26136" linktype="page">In 2023: catching &#39;em young</a></h2><p>&#39;A living textbook of our times&#39; – that&#39;s how PARI&#39;s vast archive of stories appears in classrooms across the country. And students want to contribute, so they are out there, interviewing, photographing, documenting and adding to our collection of work on rural issues as they intern with us<br/></p><p></p><h5>December 29, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/pari-education-team/">PARI Education Team</a></h5><p></p>

In 2023: catching 'em young

<h2><a id="26166" linktype="page">Social Media: PARI&#39;s highlight reel</a></h2><p>Our posts on social media help amplify and transport our stories to distant and diverse audiences<br/></p><p></p><h5>December 30, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/the-pari-team/">PARI Team</a></h5><p></p>

Social Media: PARI's highlight reel

<h2><a id="26208" linktype="page">In 2023: more than just a FACE</a></h2><p>Adivasi communities, farmers in Birbhum, West Bengal and coir workers in Alappuzha, Kerala, are just some of the additions we have this year<br/></p><h5>December 31, 2023 | <a href="https://ruralindiaonline.org/en/authors/the-pari-team/">PARI Team</a></h5>

In 2023: more than just a FACE

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<p style="line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Younger, media-saturated generations are growing up knowing little about their country, but a lot about the elites of a few metros and towns. For a narrowly-owned, commercially-driven media, the dumbing down of a nation is part of standard operating procedure. The last available data of the Centre for Media Studies (CMS, Delhi) show us that reports from New Delhi account for 66 per cent of news on the front pages of major dailies. The CMS data also found that just about 0.24 per cent of front page news came out of rural India. The TV channels are not much better.</span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">PARI exists to change that.</span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">We are a non-profit organisation. We publish under creative commons, and do not charge readers a subscription fee or put-up advertisements. Nothing is behind a paywall and we are completely free-to-access by anyone. We guard our independence and receive no direct grants from governments and corporations, nor any funding that could dictate our content. So, we are dependent on volunteer labour, donations from individuals, foundations and institutions that see value in independent and free media.</span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;font-size:12pt;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">PARI is changing the way Indian journalism reports and documents the rural.India is more than the elite of a few metros and towns. We report on rural lives and livelihoods, languages, communities, migrants and more. We need your help to pull off this most ambitious of Indian journalistic endeavours. The scale of this effort costs money. Donate generously - and spread the word about PARI.</span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-top:0pt;" dir="ltr">&nbsp;</p>

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PARI in 2023

A round-up of this year at PARI, across stories, library reports, languages, poetry, songs, films, photos, faces and our outreach on social media

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