Directory of Development Journalists 2015

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DIRECTORY OF DEVELOPMENT
JOURNALISTS
2015
DIRECTORY OF
DEVELOPMENT
JOURNALISTS
2015
Directory of Development Journalists 2015
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ActionAid India
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Introduction
You might well ask why a directory of development journalists in this age of
Google, Wikipedia and smart phones. There are several journalists working in
rural areas and small towns who are not that well known. Many of them are
freelancers and what they write often gets lost in some small, regional
newspapers. Yet, these are the journalists who can bring about change,
development in areas where the city journalists and even the TV cameras may
not reach, unless there is a major disaster, natural or manmade.
News on development, especially on initiatives or individuals making a
difference, needs to reach out to a larger audience. Journalists writing on
development issues can be the change makers. They need to be seen,
recognised and lauded. NGOs and others seeking to empower communities
can tap the talent of these writers, many of who combine development work
with writing.
ActionAid India, which has supported Charkha's efforts to bring out this
directory, also works in rural interiors with marginalised communities and the
disadvantaged. The directory will be on the website of both Charkha and
ActionAid India.
Over a 100 journalists, photo journalists and NGOs who work on health,
education, gender, environment, water and sanitation and other
development issues feature in this directory. The list of journalists is not, and
cannot be, comprehensive. In fact, journalists from the electronic media have
not been included as they are high profile and can be reached after a quick
search. But the directory has tried to include the new age journalists who are
part of the community in different geographical locations and report stories
as they unfold in the field.
To ensure the credibility of the journalists selected, most of those in this
directory have won laurels, fellowships and awards for promoting and writing
about the lesser known rural India.
We hope this directory will help people working in the development sector
connect with each other to visibilise the marginalised and invisible.
Sumita Ghose
President, Charkha Development Communication Network
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Photograph by Charkha
Writers
Anand Annu is a Delhi-based journalist with over 25 years of
experience and has worked in newspapers, magazines, and
news agencies. At present, she is a freelance journalist and
writes for Dainik Bhaskar, Jagran, Navbharat Times, Outlook
Hindi, The Hindu, The Tribune and The Statesman. She also
worked in the Press Institute of India as Editor (Hindi) and
Associate Editor (English) of its publications Grassroots, a
journal devoted to development Issues and Vidura, a
pioneering journal on media. She teaches journalism as a part of the visiting
faculty at several journalism schools and trains working journalists. She has
written a manual on guidelines for reporting on sex selection. She has
appeared on many television channels to comment on social and development issues and is a jury member for media fellowships awarded to Madhya
Pradesh journalists by Vikas Samvad, a Bhopal based communication
organization. She received the Thakur Vedram award for development
journalists in 2003, the 2007 UNFPA-Ladli media award for best feature on
gender sensitivity and the Panos fellowship on safe motherhood in 1998.
Email:[email protected], [email protected]
Phone: +91 - 9810911468
Akhileshwari R, currently a Hyderabad-based freelance
journalist, has worked for Deccan Herald for over three
decades. She was the newspaper's foreign correspondent in
Washington and later in Hyderabad as Deccan Herald's
Special Correspondent for Andhra Pradesh. She has won five
awards for professional excellence and contribution to
journalism and furthering the cause of women through her
writings. Her articles have been published in leading newspapers and magazines in India in English, Telugu, Urdu and Kannada and
international research journals. Her areas of interests include human rights,
poverty, women and children, nomadic and Dalit communities and media. As
a researcher she has published more than 30 research papers on the media.
Her most recent assignment was as Senior Research Fellow with the ICSSRsponsored research project on OBCs, focusing on women of the most
backward castes in Telangana. She headed the Department of Mass
Communication in Loyola Academy and also taught post graduate journalism
students in Osmania University. She has produced current affairs
programmes for Telugu TV channels and published a book titled Women
Journalists in India: Swimming against the Tide, in 2014.
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Phone: 040 - 27794040, +91 - 9849745617
Phone:+91 - 999938895
Asif Gohar is a freelance journalist based in Delhi. Earlier, he
was an assistant editor with the trilingual features service of
Charkha Development Communication Network in Delhi and
edited and placed articles sent by rural writers in mainstream
media. He has also worked with ANI as a member of the
production team making films for Doordarshan on social
issues like MNREGA, NRHM, climate change and education.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +91 - 9990663512
Bahl Taru is a Delhi-based freelance journalist and has over 25
years of experience writing, editing, conceptualising innovative formats and ideating with teams engaged in the media
and the social development sector. Currently, she contributes
to Women's Feature Service, The Tribune and the Hindu on
social and development issues and consults with UN agencies
on health and development communication. Earlier she
worked as National Editor, Online, with Mint, and Assistant
Editor with The Statesman. She wrote a popular weekly column for over 10
years in The Tribune on “Life Ties”. She was awarded a two-year fellowship by
the PRB-USAID funded 'Women's Edition' a project that brought together 12
senior women journalists and editors from developing countries to train and
write on reproductive health. She is widely travelled in India and abroad.
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Arora Kiran is a Delhi-based freelance journalist and writes on
health, women, consumer rights and films. Kiran has worked
for Navbharat Times and Sandhya Times for two decades. Her
stories and columns have appeared in Dharmyug, Sarika,
Dinmaan,Vama, and Filmfare. Kiran has written for Outlook
(Hindi) and Sanmarg (Kolkata) and has her own website. At
present Kiran writes a weekly column for Kashiwarta, a daily
Hindi newspaper published from Varanasi. She has also
penned many poems and short stories which appeared in publications of the
Times of India group. Besides co-authoring a Hindi novel titled 'Pyase Badal',
Kiran was responsible for translating from English to Hindi, a quarterly health
newsletter published by a nongovernmental organisation. She has also
helped to edit an in-house magazine of the Wimco group.
Phone: +91 - 9899834464
Bandhu Rajendra is based in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, and is
active in the field of development journalism for the last 25
years. His articles have been published in Jansatta, Hindustan,
The Hindu Business line, Pioneer, Deccan Herald, Grassroots,
Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagaran, Navbharat, Rajasthan Patrika,
Naidunia, Deshbandhu, Prabhat Khabar, Ranchi Express,
Samaj Kalyaan, Panchayaika, Charkha, Sarvodaya Press
Service, Srot Features among others. His writings focus on the
rural and tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh and on agriculture, water, rural
technologies and employment, education, literacy and health. Currently he is
editing Community Media, a monthly newspaper in Hindi on development
issues. His list of awards and recognition include the Laadli award for gender
sensitive reporting, the Sarojini Naidu Prize of The Hunger Project for his
writings on women in panchayati raj institutions, the Tarun Bhaduri Award of
the Madhya Pradesh government, the Ramakant Chaudhury Award from the
Journalist Forum, Dewas, the NFI media fellowship, and the Prem Bhatia
Fellowship for rural journalism in Madhya Pradesh.
Among his many books are 'Akbaar Mein Gaon', on development journalism
published by Disha Samvad, 'Sahas Nama', on struggle of women panchayat
representatives, published by Vikas Setu and 'Manzil ki Aur' on women
panchayati raj representatives, published by The Hunger Project.
Phone: +91 - 8889884676
Banerjee Ananda is a Delhi-based conservation journalist,
graphic designer and fine arts photographer. Being an avid
birder, he has authored several bestselling books like the
Common Birds of the Indian Subcontinent, Wild Trail in
Madhya Pradesh, and Nature Chronicles Of India: Essays On
Wildlife. He was a contributing author for the book, Birds and
People. As a fellow of the Forum of Environmental Journalists
in India - Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the
Environment, he has contributed to several books, magazines, galleries and
museums around the globe. He writes on natural history conservation in the
Mint and has been associated with the Centre for Science and Environment
(Down To Earth magazine), India Today group, The Pioneer, Peace Institute,
Environment, Law and Development Foundation, National Tiger
Conservation Authority and Global Tiger Forum. He was a jury member for
'Vatavaran', an Environment and Wildlife Film Festival, and is a merit awardee
Phone: +91 - 9810157584
Baruah Sanjiv is a broadcaster with All India Radio and based
in Delhi. As a presenter and producer, he has interviewed
many eminent artists, writers, musicians, activists, innovators and people who have worked tirelessly to bring change in
the world. These include interviews with Australian cricketer
Brett Lee and his music education project with underprivileged children in India and William Dalrymple, an acclaimed
writer who has retold Indian history in a new way. He has also
produced programmes on women's empowerment, environment and
innovations in agriculture.
Email: [email protected] , [email protected]
Phone: +91 - 9810467247
Bavadam Lyla works for the Mumbai bureau of Frontline
magazine and writes on environment, development and rural
issues. She received the first Bellagio Forum Fellowship for
environmental studies on the Reuters Foundation Fellowship
Programme, Oxford University. Her paper, Making India's
development strategy sustainable, written during the
fellowship, was published as an in-house publication by
Oxford University. She has contributed chapters to The
Unheard Scream: Reproductive Health and Women's Lives in India published
in 2004 and to The Green Pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South
Asia published in 2010.She was also nominated for the Sanctuary Award in
2004 in the category 'Defender of Nature' .
Phone: +91 - 9821733529
Behar Upasna is a social activist and writer, contributing
regularly to the Hindi magazine on rural dialogues called
Dustak. She writes stories for children, blogs as well as writes
on social issues for newspapers and magazines. Secretary at
the Urban and Rural Growth Academy in Bhopal, she has been
working on child and women's issues in Madhya Pradesh for a
long time. Her focus has been education and health of women
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of the 2014 Asian Environmental Journalist Awards given by the Singapore
Environment Council for environmental journalism.
and children. She works on issues related to the common man through a
youth communication group.
Phone : +91 - 9424401469
Bhagat Rasheeda is currently Editor of Rotary News and is
based in Chennai. She writes on gender, conflict, social and
human interest and rights issues. Prior to this Rasheeda was
senior associate editor at The Hindu Business Line, and Chief
of News Bureau of The Indian Express in Chennai. She has
won many journalism awards in recognition of her work.
Phone: +91-9841012753
Bhattacharjee Swati is the Chief Reporter, District, at the
Ananda Bazar Patrika in Kolkata. Swati focuses on poverty
reduction, health, education, women's self-help movements
and issues of gender justice. She has received several
prestigious fellowships, including the Fulbright Fellowship,
2010-2011, for the tenure of which she was a visiting scholar
at MIT. Her past awards include the Jefferson Fellowship and
the ICSSR Western Region Visiting Fellowship. She is the vice
president of the India chapter of the South Asian Women in Media and has
authored and edited several books.
Phone: +91 - 9836576677
Brara Sarita is a freelance journalist based in Delhi and writes
for several publications including Hindu Business Line and
Renewable Watch. Earlier, she worked as a correspondent
and editor for All India Radio for over 25 years. She retired in
2011 as head of the reporting and features unit of AIR's news
service division. During her stint at AIR, she produced new
capsules and features on health, rural development, women
and child rights and environment. She twice received the
award for best correspondent for coverage of the Kargil conflict and, of the
impact of the super cyclone in Odisha and tsunami in Andaman and Nicobar
Islands.
Phone: +91-9868511792
Phone: +91 - 9811673296
Chaudhary Pranava Kumar is a Special Correspondent with
the Times of India in Patna. He has covered a wide range of
development issues including people's movements, women's
empowerment, human trafficking and the environment. He
has edited some of the coffee table books on Bihar. He has
attended several international conferences on human
trafficking, gender, child labour, and HIV/AIDS and was part of
a media programme sponsored by Robert Bosch Stiftung to
facilitate senior journalists to visit and meet with high-level decision makers
from politics, media, business, academia and civil society in Germany.
Phone : +91 - 9431020227
Choudhary Shubhranshu, a Chhattisgarh-based journalist,
founded the world's first community radio on the mobile
phone called CGnet Swara. This content of this cell phonebased news and current affairs network is developed by the
people of Chhattisgarh for its people. Shubhranshu, a former
BBC South Asia producer for more than 10 years, came up
with the idea while working on a Knight International
Journalism Fellowship to study how to give voice to disenfranchised villagers of Chhattisgarh. CGNet Swara was born with technical
expertise provided by Microsoft Research India. Shubhranshu won the 2014
Google Digital Activism Award and was named one of 100 leading global
thinkers by the US-based Foreign Policy magazine in 2014. He is currently
working on a project for democratization of the media in central tribal India.
Phone: +91 - 9811066749
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Chaturvedi Shefali works as Associate Producer at the India
office of BBC Media Action in Delhi. Before joining BBC in
2012, she worked for 12 years in radio programming,
production, strategy and management. Winner of the 2012
Laadli media award and the 2014 Rangkriti award for
outstanding radio production on women's issues, she is also
working with mHealth Audio Productions. She also freelances
for Dainik Bhaskar, Hindustan, Grassroots and Outlook
(Hindi).
Daitota Ishwar is currently an independent journalist based in
Bengaluru. He was Editor of the Kannada edition of the Times
of India for five years, from 2007 to 2011. Earlier, Ishwar
worked as Chief Editor of two multi-edition newspapers, Vijay
Karnataka and later, Samyukta Karnataka. The former editor
of Vijaya Karnataka and Udayavani, Ishwar has both print and
broadcast experience. He produced Sunayana (Kannada), the
first talking newspaper for the blind. Ishwar has worked with
Reliance Net-Jal, the first Internet newspaper in India and published many
books in Kannada on development issues. He was the media advisor for the
Janaagraha People's Movement for three years and was also engaged with
Pratham Books Trust for about five years. He has covered international
conferences on environment, development and politics.
Phone: +91 - 93433 80686
Dasgupta KumKum is an Associate Editor with The Hindustan
Times in Delhi. She has earlier worked with Times of India,
Pioneer, the India Today group and Down To Earth. She is
interested in environment, poverty, gender issues, governance and inclusive growth. KumKum was a part of several
award winning series published by Hindustan Times. These
include Inspired India, Re-imagining India, India Awakened
and India Yatra. The latter two series were published as books
and Inspired India won the 2009 KC Kulish International Award. KumKum
received the Robert Bosch Stiftung fellowship twice (2010, 2012) and the
2013 Chevening scholarship. She was also a part of “Stop Acid Attacks” series
for which the newspaper received the 2014 IPI India Award for Excellence in
Journalism.
Phone: +91 - 9971099921
Datta P.T. Jyothi is a Deputy Editor with The Hindu Business
Line newspaper in Mumbai and presently anchors Pulse, the
paper's fortnightly health page. With over two decades in
journalism, she writes on health issues spanning across policy,
medicine prices and access concerns and intellectual
property. Having started with the Indian Express, she has
worked out of Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai and has in the past
written on development issues, including a year-long column
on child labour in Chennai. This was later compiled into a book, jointly
Phone: +91 - 9820241511
Dave Sanjay is the Founder Editor of Charkha Development
News & Features, Gujarat. He has worked on development
communication with over 250 development organizations
and NGOs and has written more than 300 features and newsreports in 40 mainstream newspapers and periodicals. He is
on the visiting faculty of over eight departments of mass
communication and social work in Gujarat. In 1998, Gujarat
government felicitated him as the best rural reporter. For his
contribution in highlighting Natural Resource Management efforts he was
felicitated as a fellow by the Development Support Center. After quitting
mainstream journalism, Sanjay works full time with Charkha, his mind
spinning relentlessly to ensure positive stories from all corners of India in
mainstream media. He also trains journalism students in development
writing and organises Vikas Goshthy (development dialogues) with them.
Sanjay has trained youth and women's groups on development issues.
Phone: +91 - 9825724608, 079 - 26583305, 26588958
Deshpande Vivek is a Senior Editor with the Nagpur edition
of Indian Express. For the past 22 years he reported on
developmental issues like the agrarian crisis, naxalism, forest
and wildlife and grass roots democracy particularly from rural
Vidarbha for the newspaper. He was the first journalist to
break the story on the Salwa Judum phenomenon, from the
Bastar region of Chhattisgarh, and continued to report on the
issue for about four years. For this reporting, Vivek received
the Ramnath Goenka award for Excellence in Journalism in 2007. He was also
shortlisted among the top 5 finalists for that year for the Kurt Schork award for
international journalism. He has written extensively on farmers suicides in
Vidarbha as well as on malnutrition, health, sanitation, forests and wildlife.
His reports on poaching, conservation, community ownership of resources
and man-animal conflict won him the Sanctuary award for Wildlife and
Conservation in 2010.
Phone: +91 - 9021504258
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supported by the International Labour Organisation called “Lost Childhood”.
She is a recipient of the British Chevening Scholarship for Young Indian
Journalists (2006-07).
Dhar Aarti is a Delhi-based freelance journalist contributing
to The Wire, and online news portal. Earlier she was deputy
editor of The Hindu and was based in Jaipur. She has covered
public health issues since 1990. For the last 10 years she
focussed on HIV/AIDS related issues even while doing political
reporting and covering elections. Her story on the lives of
Hindus in Vrindavan in 2010 led the National Legal Services
Authority under the Supreme Court to take suo moto
congnisance and order a survey of these women, their living conditions and
the facilities provided by the Centre and the State. She was awarded the first
Chandulal Chandrakar fellowship for journalism by the Chhattisgarh government in 2001 and the CMS Vatavaran Best Environmentalist Award in 2009.
She also received a fellowship from the Population Reference Bureau,
Washington. The Chhattisgarh government published her work done during
the fellowship as a book titled Raipur Vignettes.
Phone: +91-98101 31802
Divya A reports on travel, tourism, culture and social issues
for The Indian Express and is based in Delhi. She's been a
journalist for over a decade now and previously worked with
Khaleej Times (Dubai) and The Times of India. Besides
writing/ editing news reports, she writes short stories. As
Sanskriti Prabha Dutt Fellow for Excellence in Journalism, she
researched on the lives of the children of sex workers in India.
Her areas of interest include rural and development reporting, healthcare,
social and gender issues. As a journalist, she believes that the best way to
report on an issue is to be on the ground and talk to people first-hand. In
pursuance of that, she has travelled to the remotest villages in Rajasthan,
Northeast, Odisha, Uttarakhand and Bihar to write on issues that matter to
the people there, and present the real Bharat to the people of India. She has
also reported extensively on honour killings in the Khap-dominated belt of
Haryana.
Email:[email protected]
Phone: +91 - 9868453809
Diwan Neeti is a Hoshangabad-based freelance journalist writing in Hindi on
rural development, panchayati raj institutions, tribals, and women's empowerment. She has received several awards including the 2005 Udyan Smruti
Phone: +91 - 9300682910, +91 - 7803099903
Dogra Bharat, a pioneer in rural journalism, has written about
7100 articles in various newspapers in India and abroad on
development, environment, human rights and social reform
in English and Hindi. A freelance journalist based in Delhi,
Bharat has also penned nearly 280 books and booklets in
these two languages. He has received journalism fellowships
and several awards for his work. These include the Statesman
Award for Rural Reporting (thrice), the Sachin Chaudhri
Award for Financial Reporting, the PUCL Award for Human Rights Journalism,
the Sanskriti Award, the FAO-IAAS Award for writing on food related issues,
Rajendra Mathur Award for Hindi Journalism, Shahid Niyogi Award for Labour
Reporting, Sarojini Naidu Award and Kendriya Hindi Sanasthaan's
Ganeshshankar Vidyarthi Award for Hindi journalism. Besides working with
community radio, he has also taught journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass
Communications and The Times of India's School of Social Journalism.
Phone: 011-25255303
Dogra Chander Suta works for the Outlook magazine and is
based in Chandigarh. She has also worked for The Hindu, the
Indian Express and The Hindustan Times and has covered
Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh for two decades. She
is particularly interested in stories from rural India, agrarian
lives, environment, growing assertion of dalits and women for
their rights and the resultant social churn. In 2013, her first
book 'Manoj and Babli A hate story' published by Penguin,
dealt with honour killings in Haryana and the political patronage that
emboldens caste councils to flout the laws of the land. Based on a true story of
a mother daughter-duo's struggle for justice, the book received good reviews
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national journalism award and awards from Population
Foundation in 2004. The media fellowship she received from
Vikas Samvad helped her to research women in leadership
roles, especially those elected to local self government bodies
in some districts of Madhya Pradesh. She also reported on the
impact of the two-child norm on elected panchayat leaders
and authored a book titled Sangharsh ki Gatha, Hamari
Koshish.
Chander Suta has also written on defence, human rights and the political
conflict in Jammu and Kashmir and is working on her next book which deals
with an unexplored dimension of the 1971 Indo Pak war.
Email [email protected]
Phone:+91 - 8288089104, +91 - 9417289104
Dubey Prashant Kumar is based in Bhopal and is currently an
independent journalist. He has been working for the last 15
years both as a journalist as well as an advocate on a range of
social issues. These include right to food and right to information, hunger, malnutrition, MGNREGA, women and child
health and issues concerning the tribals particularly the
Sahariya and Baigas. Associated with the Right to Food
Movement since 2002, he also has his own blog. Prashant has
conducted over 90 training workshops with NGOs on RTI, food security,
MGNREGA and tribal rights linking up these issues with various judgements of
the Supreme Court. He has also written books and published papers on these
subjects. Prashant received the 2010 National RTI award, the 2011 CNN
Young Indian Leaders award, the CSE's 2012 media fellowship on climate
change and the 2014 NFI fellowship on malnutrition and tuberculosis in the
Sahariya community in Rajasthan.
Phone:+91 - 9425026331, 0755 - 4275405
Dutt Bahar is a Delhi-based trained wildlife conservationist
and has worked for the last fifteen years in India and abroad
on key environmental issues. She worked as Environment
Editor with CNN-IBN and has won many national and
international awards for her reportage. She has represented
Indian wildlife conservation issues at many international
forums such as the World Parks Congress in South Africa and
the Convention on Biological Diversity in Malaysia. She has
studied Amazonian monkeys at the world famous Jersey Zoo in England,
worked for conservation groups in Africa and is the author of several scientific
papers and conservation reports. She was awarded the 2007 Young
Environment Journalist Award, 2007 Express Award for Excellence in
Environment Reporting, and the 2008 Sanskriti Award for her work with a
traditional community of snake charmers. She was awarded the Green Oscar,
or the Wildscreen Award in 2005 for her report the Last Dance of the Sarus.
She is the author of a recent book 'Green Wars- Dispatches from a Vanishing
Phone: +91 - 9810904748
Dutta Pradeep is the Bureau Chief of Times Now in Jammu
and Kashmir. Pradeep has covered issues related to traditional
and non-traditional security. Whether it is direct reporting
from encounter site in Arnia, Jammu and Kashmir, or trekking
16 hours to reach the LoC post at 13,000 feet, or spending a
night at a forward post to get a first-hand report of Indian
soldiers keeping watch against all odds, Pradeep has reported
from all conditions. He is the recipient of the Bennett and
Coleman and Company Limited's Chairman's Award For Excellence in
Reporting, the Mehboob-ul-Haq award by the Colombo-based Regional
Centre for Strategic Studies for joint research with Karachiacademician on
Indo-Pak Water Politics, and has been the Charkha-Sanjoy Ghose Fellow for
Peace & Development, 2004-05. Pradeep has covered political developments
and elections in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, has
presented papers at national and international conferences on small arms
proliferation and Indo Pak relations. He also writes poetry on sensitive issues
like partition, Kashmir imbroglio and, girls' education under the shadow of the
gun. As a student in 1993, when militancy was at its peak, he launched and
edited a bi-monthly children magazine Oyster to distract youth from the lure
of the gun and create positive spaces for them.
Phone:+91 - 9419118514
Elizabeth Jisha has been working as a Sub-Editor-cumCorrespondent in Madhyamam for the last five years in
Calicut. An investigative journalist, she reports on women,
agriculture, environment, tribal issues, land rights, health and
education. Her series on tribal rights led to 101 tribal families
being given possession certificates for 147 acres of land for
the first time in Kerala, under the Forest Rights Act, 2005. This
won her the Dr. Ambedkar Media Award from the Kerala
government in 2009. Besides being a fellow of the National Foundation for
India, Delhi, in 2012, she has won several prestigious awards including the
2010 Leela Menon Woman Journalist Award of Ernakulam Press Club for her
investigative series on fake universities in India and the 2013 Media Fest
award for best investigative article. She is interested in photography and
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World by Harper Collins. Currently she writes a weekly column for Mint on
environment, biodiversity and sustainability issues.
travelling. She is also an active blogger.
Phone : +91 - 9645005949, +91 - 9037994813
Ghangurde Anju is the South Asia Editor of Scrip Intelligence,
an Informa publication, and is based in Mumbai. A Chevening
scholar (2000-01), women and child health issues are very
close to her heart. She writes extensively on a broad range of
issues including competition and collaboration between
generics and innovator firms, patent-related issues, drug
pricing, the evolving regulatory and legal framework and
company strategies. She is responsible for reporting from
India and key South Asian markets. She also follows racquet sports closely and
has previously received recognition at the national level.
Phone: 022 - 26169191, +91 - 98202 88667
Ghosh Rakhi is an independent journalist based in
Bhubaneswar. She has experience in both print and electronic
media and focuses on women and children, health, environment, development and human-interest stories, dalits, tribals
and disability. She has worked for The Dharitri, an Odia
newspaper, The Asian Age as well as Odisha Television, the
premier television channel of the state, Naxatra news as a
producer in Current affairs department. At present she
contributes to Women's Features Services and The Hoot, besides writing for
Odia newspapers and magazines. She also presents a programme centred
around women on Doordarshan Odia. She received the 2014 Child Survival
Media fellowships from the National Foundation of India in collaboration with
Save the Children, to work on adolescent, reproductive and maternal health
issues in Odisha. She was twice awarded the Ladli Media Award (2012, 2013)
once in the broadcast category and once for best investigative reporting in the
print media.
Phone: +91 - 9090464340
Gupta Umesh is a Delhi-based freelance journalist and activist and writes on
social issues. His articles have been published in Navbharat Times, Nai Dunia,
Rajasthan Patrika, Daily News, Jagran and many development journals. His
Phone:+91 - 9415037882, +91 - 9212289894
Gour Shivnarayan is a noted Madhya Pradesh writer in Hindi
on development issues. Shivnarayan started writing for the
weekly newspaper Krishak Jagat as its correspondent from
Hoshangabad. He was also editor of the fortnightly Disha
Samvad. Writing and editing for more than 15 years, he has
contributed to Dainik Hindustan, Hindustan, Nai Duniya,
Dainik Bhaskar, Lokmat Samachar, Nav Bharat and
Deshbandhu in Hindi and to Deccan Herald and Pioneer in English. For Gram
Seva Samiti (GSS), Hoshangabad, and Charkha, Delhi, he has been a coordinator and resource person developing writing and documentation skills for
social sector grassroots workers. Though he writes largely in Hindi, he is
equally comfortable communicating in English and the Bundelkhandi dialect.
His areas of special interest areas are agriculture, education and gender
issues.
Phone : +91 - 9425433229
Halliday Adam is working with the Indian Express as Principal
Correspondent and is based in Aizawl, Mizoram. His areas of
specialization include environment, tribal issues, infrastructure and development. He has written on demographic
changes, linguistic, ethnic and tribe conflicts, impacts of
planned and ongoing development/infrastructure projects
and wildlife, among others. Prior to this he was based in
Gujarat and reported on the developmental issues in Kutch district, the
planned nuclear power plant in Bhavnagar, Alang-Sosiya ship-breaking yard,
tribal land issues in eastern Gujarat, industrial pollution and impacts of
projects on wildlife.
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areas of interest include child rights, health, Right to
Education, Right To Information and emergency response.
Some of his RTI petitions were taken up as parliamentary
questions and triggered debates in Parliament. Umesh
earlier worked as campaign and media officer in Bachpan
Bachao Andolan and was closely associated with its founder
Kailash Satyarthi.
Phone: +91 - 9436140055, +91 - 9862573033
Husain Narjis, a Delhi-based award-winning journalist,
currently works as a researcher in Rajya Sabha Television. She
has worked as a copy editor and correspondent reporting on
issues related to development, women's empowerment,
health and HIV/AIDS for Hindustan, a Hindi newspaper of the
Hindustan Times group. She won the Panos South Asia Media
Fellowship, 2001-2003, Shaheed Shankar Guha Niyogi
Memorial Journalism Award 2003, Action Aid fellowship 2005, EU-India
media award on reporting HIV/AIDS 2006, Sarojini Naidu Award for the best
reporting on Women in Panchayati Raj in India in 2011 and National
Foundation for India (NFI) Fellowship in 2015.
Phone: +91-9818347002
Hussain Sazzad is a freelance journalist based In Lakhimpur,
Assam. He writes in English and Assamese on current affairs
and social issues. Earlier, he worked with The Assam Tribune
and Dainik Janashadharan and Ajir Asom, two vernacular
dailies published from Guwahati. His columns appear in The
Assam Tribune, The Eastern Chronicle, The Himalayan Mail,
Asomiya Pratidin and Amar Asom as well as in online sites.
Sazzad received the 2014 CSE media fellowship for writing on traditional
housing systems of Assam. In 2013 he was awarded the National Foundation
of India fellowship for his work on Women in Zero Toilet Valleys of Assam. He
received the 2013 REACH Lilly MDR-TB Partnership media fellowship for his
reportage on TB and was also given a certificate of excellence for his stories on
water and sanitation issues by the WSSCC and Stockholm International Water
Institute in 2014.
Phone: +91 - 9435025877, +91 - 7086725877
Indiwar Amritanj is a freelance journalist based in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. His
articles on agriculture, environment, women and child issues are syndicated
by Charkha Features and have appeared in magazines like Yojana and
Kurukshetra. Amritanj has always tried to combine social work with his
Phone:+91 - 9693901871
Jain Rimjhim is a Noidai-based freelance journalist writing on
gender, health, child rights, environment and livelihoods
issues. Her articles have been published by The Hindustan
Times, The Hindu, Tribune and the Financial Express. She has
both print and television experience having worked with
Down To Earth, The Times of India in Lucknow, and the Press
Institute of India as well as with Television International News
and Zee News. She has co-edited the newsletters of the
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and Janani and has
brought out media manuals on HIV and AIDS and child labour, and in-house
journals on wildlife and environment for WWF-India.
Phone: +91 - 9899399777
Jain Sachin Kumar is the founder of the Bhopal-based Vikas
Samvad, an initiative to create a closer connect between
media and society. Sachin works closely with journalists and
grassroots organizations to build their understanding of
issues through dialogue and evidence based discussions.
Sachin writes research based articles on food security,
nutrition, child rights and women's rights issues, public
health and people's rights for Dainik Bhaskar, Down to Earth,
News18, Rashtriya Sahara, Dainik Jagran. He has written 21 info-packs on
census data, NSSO reports and 33 books/booklets on climate change, food
security, poverty, nutrition, WTO negotiations on food security. In 2006, he
received the Sanskriti award for journalism.
Phone :0755 - 4252789, +91 - 9977704847
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writings. He connected with the community improvement
programme of Mission Eye International while simultaneously working with the Appan Samachar to focus on
programmes and facilities for rural girls. He later joined
mainstream media and worked with Purvanchal Prahari, a
daily newspaper, as a sub-editor. The lure of grassroots
journalism was so intense that he went back to work with
Appan Samachar and began writing for Charkha Features.
Javed Anis is a freelance journalist, social activist, columnist,
blogger and research scholar based in Bhopal. He has had a 10
year association with social movements like the Himalayan
Seva Sangh and has volunteered with Civil Service
International. For two months after the 2002 Gujarat riots, he
worked with riot-affected women and children in relief camps
in Ahmedabad. He worked as an advocacy internship with the
National Centre for Advocacy Studies, Pune, and also did a
study on girls' madarsas in Madhya Pradesh. Simultaneously he started
working on urban poor, communal harmony and minority rights with Nagrik
Adhikar Manh and Yuva Samvad. He is secretary of the Madhya Pradesh Lok
Sangrash Sanjha Manch (MPLSSM), a state level network of organizations,
CBOs and individuals working on child rights issues in Madhya Pradesh. He is
editor of Sanjhi Baat, the MPLSSM magazine and is doing his PhD on madarsa
modernisation. He writes regularly in newspapers on social issues.
Phone: +91 - 9424401459
Jena Manipadma is a freelance journalist based in
Bhubaneswar and writes on a range of climate change issues
in Asia. She contributes to international news agencies like
the Thomson Reuters Foundation and Inter Press Service. She
has covered international climate-related conferences in
Athens, South Korea, China, Islamabad, Bangkok, Nepal and
Hyderabad, and won the 2012 best media reporting award at
the Second Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in
Bangkok. She has worked on several media fellowships from United Nations
organizations. She has written extensively on development issues, including
environment, and gender in Indian mainstream media and wrote a personal
column in the Times of India. She has authored a book on tribal folk tales
gathered from the oral tradition of indigenous communities titled 'Tales from
Hills and Fields of Orissa.' Manipadma is empanelled on regional television
channels as an expert speaker on women's issues.
Phone:+91 - 9437301325
Jha Nivedita is based in Patna and has 27 years of experience in journalism.
Nivedita writes in Hindi for several newspapers and magazines in Delhi like
Outlook, Etwar, Sablog and Hamwatan. She is also President of the South Asia
Women in Media, Bihar chapter, since 2012. Beginning with Patliputra Times,
Nivedita has worked for Nai Duniya, Rashtriya Sahara, Nav Bharat Times and
Phone: +91 - 9835029152
Jha Vibhash Kumar is currently the Editor of a weekly Hindi
newspaper, Janpad Sandesh and monthly news magazine
Prompt Times in Hindi and English. Vibhash has been
associated with Hindi and English journalism for two and a
half decades. For his analytical and research-based studies
and reporting, this Raipur-based journalist has received
several fellowships and awards. This includes the Chandulal
Chandrakar fellowship in 2002 by Chhattisgarh government,
the national media fellowship by the National Foundation for India, media
fellowship by the Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University for Journalism,
Sarojini Naidu Prize (for reporting on women in Panchayati Raj by the Hunger
Project and the Bharatendu Harishchandra award by the Information &
Broadcasting Ministry. He has also got the Jaycees Outstanding Young
Achievers award, Vibhuti Alankaran award and the Sankalp Samaj Sewa
award. Two of his books have been published by Chhattisgarh Hindi Granth
Akadami. Vibhash has also been associated with All India Radio and
Doordarshan as casual newsreader and Assistant Editor.
Phone: +91 - 9300340836, + 91 - 98261-69369
Joseph Reji is currently the Bureau Chief and Chief Reporter of Deepika at its
head office in Kottayam, Kerala. He joined as a Staff Reporter in 1996 and has
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Aaj. She has won the Laadli Media Award for gender sensitive
reporting and received two fellowships from the National
Foundation for India and the Visionary Leadership
Programme fellowship supported by UNFPA. Her book,
Balika Soshan ke Unkahi Kahani (The Untold Story of Child
Abuse), based on her NFI fellowship stories was published by
Books for Change. Nivedita provided the Bihar inputs for the
Press Institute of India and National Commission of Women
study on the Status of Women Journalists in India. Her other studies were on
Akhbaro Mein Hinsa (Violence in Newspapers) commissioned by Oxfam India
and on the magnitude of witch hunting in Bihar. She has participated in
international workshops on reproductive and child health, investigative
journalism under the mentorship of Media Advocates for Reproductive
Health and Empowerment and Violence against women.
written on human rights, environment, health, child and
women's rights and plight of the oppressed since the last 14
years. Reji's journalism achievements include winning the
acclaimed Statesman award for Rural Reporting thrice, The
Ramath Goenka National Media award; the Karpoor Chand
Kulish International Journalism award and Developing Asia
Journalism award by the Asian Development Bank. His feature
highlighting the myriad hardships faced by Sri Lankan
refugees in their journey for survival to the South Indian coast won him the
International Catholic Press Union Global Journalism Award. He received the
2015 National Foundation for India media fellowship to write on the prevalence of malnutrition among infants of the Attappady tribe in Kerala. Reji has
visited and reported from several countries including Sri Lanka, Egypt,
Canada, Japan and Ireland.
Phone: 0481 - 2 566706, +91 - 9447279215, +91 - 9349599102
Kashyap Samudra Gupta, currently Assistant Editor with The
Indian Express in Guwahati, has been with the newspaper for
the past 24 years. He has reported for over 30 years from the
NorthEast and has done a number of well researched
analytical pieces on the political and social complexities in this
region stemming from insurgency and economic backwardness. He has also written on environment and development
issues and rights. Awards won include the Rai Bahadur M S
Oberoi silver medal instituted by Transparency International India for
exposing corruption and the Bhupen Hazarika award instituted by Sarhad,
Pune. He has also served as a state resource person for awareness on the
Right To Information Act, and has conducted training on child rights and the
media. A bilingual writer, Samudra has written and co-authored several books
in English and Assamese.
Phone : +91 - 9435048049
Kejariwal Mukesh is a Special Correspondent with the Dainik Jagran. Based in
Delhi, he has covered health, education and other development issues for
both print and electronic media for more than a decade. His investigative
reports uncovered several government scams. He has received several
national and international awards and media fellowships for his journalistic
work. These include Government of India-UNDP media fellowship on
Phone :+91 - 9999012645, +91 - 9560798201
Khan Mohammed Anis ur Rahman is Deputy Editor and
Project Manager in Charkha Development Communication
Network, Delhi. He heads the Urdu unit of the trilingual
feature service of Charkha in English, Hindi and Urdu. Anis
conducts skill building sessions with socially sensitive youth in
rural and remote parts of the country. He introduces them to
development writing as a means of fulfilling their social
responsibility towards the unheard rural poor. He also
generates and edits writings which are disseminated to mainstream print
media. Winner of the Laadli Media award in 2010, Anis writes in Urdu and his
articles are translated and published as Charkha features in English and Hindi.
Phone :+91 - 9910256989,+91 - 9210781142
Kujur Aloka is a freelance journalist based in Ranchi and
writes for Apni Ranchi, Hindi Hindustan, Ranchi Express,
Prabhat Khabar, Dainik Express, The Tribune and Pioneer. She
has reported on the elections, implementation of MGNREGA,
migration, and mining. She writes research based reports on
the media for the Hoot website. She is on the editorial board
of Mazdoor Shakti, Delhi and has done research on forestry
for Bindrai Institute for Research Study and Action (BIRSA), on
displacement in Jharkhand and witchcraft. She has also researched the
impact of stone crushing on women's health and violence against women.
She is recipient of fellowships from NFI, CSE and Social Watch, Delhi. Currently
she is also managing Social Awareness For Democracy, Art and Research
(SAFDAR).
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decentralized planning, 2015, from Niti Aayog, J2J Media
Fellowship, 2014, by National Press Foundation, media
fellowship on tobacco control' from Panos South Asia, 2011,
media fellowship on maternal and child under nutrition in
India from One World South Asia, 2013. He received the
Reach Lily MDR TB Partnership media award in 2014, for his
reporting on TB related issues. He was also part of India
Tobacco Control Leadership Programme, 2012, by the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. He has been a panelist on
discussion programmes for several news broadcasters.
Phone: +91 - 9430194872
Kumar Ashish is a Delhi-based freelance journalist. He was
earlier associated with Sopanstep, a bilingual magazine, for
over ten years. As a senior correspondent with the magazine,
he focused on a range of subjects including rural development, especially tribals and their fight for land, forest and
identity. He tries to go beyond the sensationalism of news
headlines to understand the sensitivity of issues like drought,
crop failure, displacement and chronic hunger. Some of the
publications he writes for includes Tehlka, Shukrwar, Yathawat, Forward
Press, Dainik Rashtriya Sahara, Dainik Jagran and, Dainik Hindustan.
Phone: +91 - 9868419453
Kumar Raju is the Bhopal-based Special Correspondent of
India Press Agency in Delhi. He contributes to the weekly
science news bulletin of Rajya Sabha TV, Science Monitor,
Gyan Vigyan and to Outlook Hindi. Journalist for 16 years, he
has worked for Desbandhu in Bhopal and the Sunday Indian,
Delhi. He has done book reviews, interviews and features for
Jansatta, Sahara Samay, Navbharat, Dainik Jagran, Raj
Express, Patrika, Seminar (English), Janamat, Samayantar,
Tribune and Sahara Time. His writes for Sarvodaya Press Service, Charkha
Features and a Hindi Water Portal. He has received the REACH Lily MDR-TB
Partnership Media awards 2015 for excellence on reporting on TB, the Laadli
Media award 2012 for Gender Sensitivity from Population First, Mumbai,
fellowships from REACH, Chennai for TB reporting in 2011 and from
ActionAid, India under Vikas Samvad programme for journalistic writings on
self governance in 2003. He has edited two books on development issues and
published 800 articles.
Phone: +91 - 9893252617
Langir Sarada is Deputy Chief Editor with Kalinga TV, a regional Odia news
channel and is based in Bhubaneswar. Earlier, she headed the bureau of Asian
News International (ANI) in Odisha. She has experience in electronic and print
media and has focussed on human intererst stories related to gender, conflict
and development. Besides writing stories for Women's Feature Service, she
Phone : +91 - 9437011104
Majumdar Swapna is an independent journalist focusing on
research-based articles on development, education, health,
water, sanitation, politics, population and poverty, child
rights, gender and the role of women as agents of social
change. In her writings, Swapna gives attention to visibilising
the marginalized and articulate stories of change in rural and
urban India. Her articles have appeared in the Economic and
Political Weekly, The Hindu, The Hindustan Times, The Indian
Express, The Times of India as well as The Guardian, South China Morning
Post and the Sydney Morning Herald. The empathy and professionalism with
which she has written on women and child rights, healthcare, reproductive
and sexual health rights, violence against women, HIV/AIDS, livelihoods, and
education has won her critical acclaim, media fellowships and awards.
Several of her articles have been included as chapters in government
publications as well as national and international nongovernmental organizations. She recently co- authored a research study, published by UN Women,
on the status of widows in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka and, a media manual on
child labour. Based in Delhi, Swapna recently wrote a series of articles,
published as books, on community- driven empowerment and change.
Phone: +91 - 9868108972
Mascarenhas Anuradha is a Senior Assistant Editor with The
Indian Express and is based in Pune. She worked earlier with
the Maharashtra Herald. She wrote on education, civic,
political and general issues for 20 years. Anuradha began
covering health related topics in the last seven years including
the swine flu epidemic, HIV/AIDS vaccine clinical trials and
issues pertaining to gender related discrimination in Pune.
She is the recipient of several awards including the Novo
Nordisk award for excellence in reporting on diabetes, Stop TB and Lilly MDRTB partnership award on tuberculosis in 2012, was among the ten journalists
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has also made some documentaries on the Olive Ridley
Turtles in Odisha and maternal health issues in the state. She
has received several awards including a special mention in the
2015 Chameli Devi awards, 2012 Laadli Media special award
for consistent engagement on gender issue across the media
(TV, print, web) as well as many prestigious media fellowships.
across the world to be selected for a Panos fellowship on writing on the
international AIDS conference in 2006 at Toronto and also selected as a global
fellow by the American Cancer Society to attend a workshop on cancer and
tobacco control in 2011 in New York.
Email : [email protected],
[email protected]
Phone : +91 - 9822628353
Manhotra Dinesh works as Senior Staff Correspondent with
The Tribune in Jammu. For the last seven years, Dinesh
focused on infrastructure development in Reasi, one of the
most backward district of Jammu and Kashmir as well as the
state of implementation of poverty alleviation programmes
in the remote, far-flung areas of Jammu region. He was earlier
with Daily Excelsior, the largest circulated English daily of
Jammu and Kashmir. He reports on rural areas especially
those areas adjoining the international border and Line of Control. He also
covers environmental issues in the mountainous belts of Kathua, Poonch,
Rajouri, Doda, Kishtwar, Ramban, and Reasi.
Email:[email protected] [email protected]
Phone: +91 - 9906095880, 0191-2431043
Mayaram Baba, working in Chhattisgarh and Madhya
Pradesh for the last 20 years, has been reporting in Hindi on a
host of development issues including traditional agriculture
systems, environment, labour, women, slum dwellers,
education, health, human rights and adivasi issues. His focus
is to give the human angle to each story. His articles have been
published in regional and national dailies such as Dainik
Bhaskar, Jansatta, Hindustan, Rastriya Sahara, Deshbandhu,
Nai Duniya, Dainik Jagran, The Hindu, and Economic and Political Weekly. He
also writes for feature agencies like Sarvodaya Press Service, Indore, the Daily
Chhattisgarh, Raipur and Samayik Varta, a monthly magazine from Delhi.
Baba received the National Foundation for India fellowship on the impact of
globalization on agriculture in Chhattisgarh, CSE media fellowship to write on
the conflict between humans and wildlife and the Vikas Samvad fellowship to
write about the impact of displacement on children. He was also awarded the
Shankar Guha Niyogi journalism award and the Gandhian Philosophy award
by the government's adult literacy mission.
Phone: +91 - 9981445913, +91 - 942443733
Phone:+91 - 9810237688
Meshack Anshu is a freelance writer and has extensive
experience of working with, and writing on, rural communities in conflict-affected and remote parts of India in her
former role as Executive Editor and Chief Executive Officer of
Charkha which runs India's only Trilingual Feature Service in
English, Hindi and Urdu. Implementing Charkha's media
projects has taken her to areas affected by Maoist violence in
Bastar, Chhattisgarh; villages at the volatile border in both Jammu and
Kashmir; and difficult-to-access areas like Kargil in the Ladakh region. While
studying at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, the devastating
tsunami prompted Anshu to travel to the Nicobar Islands in 2005, where she
researched the detrimental impact of the standardised rehabilitation
measures on the isolated Nicobarese tribal community. She also led a
Charkha community media project in the fragile islands on environmental
conservation. She writes in English, and her writings highlight the perspectives of rural communities. Her area of interest is conflict and its impact on the
invisible India.
Phone : +91 - 9899236979
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Mehra Preeti is currently Associate Editor with The Hindu
Business Line in Delhi and is in charge of the India Interior
page that focuses on rural issues and rural markets. A
journalist for the past 34 years, she has previously worked in
leading publications including The Hindu and The Times of
India. Dedicated to development journalism, she has started
several sections focused on development in The Hindu
Business Line and The Hindu. Preeti has written on social and development
issues coverings women, child rights, drug abuse, poverty, health and
environment. She is currently an Advisory Board Member for the research
project 'Young Lives' a four-country study on childhood poverty involving
12,000 children. She received the 1999 National Foundation for India
fellowship to study women and disabilities which culminated in a book titled,
“Diary of the Dispossessed” brought out by NFI. Preeti has lectured as a
faculty consultant on the print media module of the Department of Media
Studies, Wigan & Leigh College, New Delhi, for two years.
Mohan Shriya is currently a Content Editor with Catch News,
an online news portal and based in Delhi. Her articles have
been published in Open Magazine, The Hindu and
Governance Now. Shriya began her career with Tehelka and
covered development issues. She spent three months living in
Khandwa, Satna, Dindori and Shivpuri districts of Madhya
Pradesh to understand and write about the Korkus, Baigas,
Saharias and Mawasis battling hunger after receiving the 2010 National
Foundation for India fellowship to write a series of articles on hunger affecting
the state's tribal belt. Later, a four part series 'Starvation Central' appeared in
Tehelka. Shriya also received a full merit scholarship to study a Masters
degree in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National
University of Singapore in 2010. During this time, she was commissioned to
write several academic case studies for the school on the Delhi rape case and
the Justice Verma committee recommendations, Niyamgiri's tribal resistance
and Vedanta's encroachment of indigenous rights. The 2014 NFI-Save the
Children Child Survival Media fellowship gave Shriya the opportunity to write
on child health and malnutrition in Delhi.
Phone: +91 - 7042144726
Morup Tashi is based in Leh, Ladakh, and has been working as
a journalist for the last 18 years. He ran his own weekly
newspaper, Magpie, and also a video magazine that looked at
developmental issues, contemporary art and music of both
Leh and Kargil districts. He received the Hunger Project's
Sarojini Naidu Prize for best reporting on women leadership in
panchayati raj institutions in 2005. He has done two fellowships with the Centre for Science and Environment, New
Delhi. Starting his career with The Pioneer newspaper in New Delhi in 1997,
he freelanced with Kashmir Times, Daily Excelsior, PTI, Down To Earth and
other national and state publications.
Phone : +91- 9419178977
Pal Sudhir heads Manthan Yuva Sansthan, an agency for development
journalism in Ranchi. Sudhir has been involved in development journalism for
over 20 years, using all forms of media for social transformation. Starting his
career as print journalist with Ranchi Express, he wrote several development
Phone: 0651 - 2202202 , +91 - 9431107277
Pande Alka is a freelance journalist based in Lucknow.
Primarily a development journalist with a special focus on
issues related to environment, gender and climate change,
Alka has done a large number of stories whilst working with
many reputed national English dailies like The Times of India,
The Indian Express and Outlook weekly magazine, and
Thomson Reuters from Uttar Pradesh. She has over 15 years of
work experience with print and electronic media. She writes
for Women's Feature Service and Business LK - a magazine from Sri Lanka.
Phone: +91 - 9839369393
Pandey Shakti Dhar is a Ranchi-based freelance journalist. He
has previously worked with Ranchi Express and Prabhat
Khabar. During this period, he was a special reporter focussing on the Right To Information Act (RTI). He filed many
exclusive stories using RTI on issues like Right to Food,
MGNREGA, and social security. He also worked with Sahiyya
Sandesh, the health magazine published by the state health
department and reported on health problems facing women
living in remote villages, the status of ICDS and the role of community health
workers. He has received several awards and media fellowships from the
Jharkhand state Information and Public Relations Department, Jharkhand RTI
Forum and National Foundation for India (2006, 2014). The 2014 NFI fellowship gave him the opportunity to write on child survival and the role of
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stories on tribal and community issues, specially the poor and
marginalized. He has published more than 1000 development
stories and is conversant in television and radio journalism.
He was among the first to use the community radio and
spearhead the community radio movement in Jharkhand. He
has produced 26 documentary films on different issues
affecting the lives of the poor and marginalized. Recipient of
NEME, CSE, NEW fellowships, he has conducted development
journalism workshops in Nepal, Malaysia, Germany and Canada. His work on
panchyati raj institutions and PESA is widely accepted. He has co-edited
Jharkhand Encyclopedia in four volumes. Editor of Panchayat Observer, a
Hindi fortnightly and managing editor PBL-NAZAR TV, Sudhir he is ready to
launch a community radio station.
Sahiyyas in improvement of IMR and MMR in Jharkhand.
Phone: +91 - 9934109575
Pandit Ambika works as Assistant Editor with the Metro
section of The Times of India in Delhi. She reports on politics,
policy and development issues. Since 2005, she has focussed
on urban poverty, the impact of government policies on
women and children and the problem of human trafficking
and child labour. Many of her reports have contributed to
shaping government policy. She has previously worked in The
Pioneer, Delhi Mid Day and The Asian Age. She received the
national media fellowship for development journalism awarded by National
Foundation for India and UNICEF for a series of stories on child rights and
adoption in 2009-10. Her series of stories on the urban homeless won her the
award for Excellence in Journalism for Social Justice in 2011 from the IndoGlobal Social Service Society. Her stories have also received a special mention
at the award ceremony of the Ramnath Goenka award for Excellence in
Journalism (civic journalism category, - 2009-10) and the prestigious Chameli
Devi Jain award by Media Foundation for outstanding woman journalist
(2012-13).
Phone: +91 - 981 598417, 011 - 23492243
Pankaj Kumar is currently Special Correspondent with
Outlook (Hindi), and is based in Delhi. He writes on political,
social and development issues. Prior to this he worked with
Rashtriya Sahara, Raj Express and Dainik Bhaskar. Pankaj has
won many laurels, including the 2014 NFI fellowship, 2006
UNIFEM and Prayas media achievement award, 2004 Saheed
Shankar Guha Niyogi journalism award and Himoatkarsh Best
Journalism award in 1998. Pankaj has used his decade long
experience in mainstream journalism to pen ten media-related books
including profiles of Narendra Modi and Nitish Kumar. He has conducted
media workshops in India and Pakistan for activists and students.
Phone : +91 - 9810778708
Padre Shree is the Executive Editor of Adike Patrike, a Kannada magazine on
agriculture. Through the magazine, farmers have been encouraged and
Phone: +91 - 8547085148
Patil - Mohan Maruti Maskar is a Senior Reporter with the
Satara edition of Punyanagari, a Marathi daily headquartered
in Aurangabad. He has written extensively on urbanization,
environment and changing paradigms of development. He
has also focused on social exclusion of the marginalised
communities, anti-liquor movement, displacement due to
dams, and farmer suicides. He has written for Lokmat and
Tarun Bharat. His articles on social issues have been used as
part of development programmes on AIR, Satara. He wrote on women in
politics, especially of South Maharashtra as a part of his 2014 Laadli award
and on the contribution of women sarpanchs in rural development of
Western Maharashtra under the 2013 NFI fellowship. His articles on health
issues like HIV and TB in Satara won him the 2012 REACH Lilly MDR-TB media
fellowship. Some of the other awards won include the 2013 Rashtrapita
Mahatma Gandhi district level Tantamukti award (Satara district) and 2012
Nanasaheb Parulekar award for development journalist given by the
Maharashtra government. Additionally, he received the Lokmat state news
award twice.
Phone: +91 - 9922928085, +91 - 9403969007
Phanjoubam Pradip is the Founder Editor of Imphal Free Press, an English
daily published from Imphal. He began as a sub-editor first with the Economic
Times, New Delhi, then The Times of India, where he first worked at the sport
desk and then with its regional bureau. He started Orient Features, a
Northeast-based features agency, headquartered in Guwahati and after
some years joined The Telegraph, Kolkata as its Imphal correspondent. In
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trained to write their own stories through a series of journalism workshops. The concept of Krishikara Kaige Lekhani ( pen
in the farmer's hands) has helped many farmers reach out to
others in the farming community through their reports..Shree
has also written articles on the environment, water conservation, rainwater harvesting and protection of water resources
and jackfruit development for Janavahini, Vijaya Karnataka
and The Hindu. He has also authored several books on
agriculture and conservation. Besides being an Ashoka Fellow, Shree received
the Karnataka Rajyotsava award for Journalism and the Statesman award for
Best Rural Reporting twice (1997 and 2005).
1995, he worked on a monograph on the question of subnationalism in the NorthEast under a fellowship of the KK Birla
Foundation, New Delhi and launched IFP the following year.
He received a two-year book writing fellowship in 2012 from
the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. His book,
Northeast Question: Frontiers and Conflicts, is expected to hit
the stands soon.
Phone: +91 - 94360221657, +91 - 9862032145
Pushkarna Vijaya is the Deputy Chief of Bureau of The Week
in Delhi and covers development through people's stories. In
a career spanning 37 years, she has looked at health, agriculture, social and economic issues of people across the country,
and specifically those caught in turmoil in Punjab and Jammu
and Kashmir, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. She
has reported on terrorism, gender issues, politics and policies
affecting people. She was previously Principal Correspondent of the Indian
Express in Chandigarh.
Phone: +91 - 9872009876
Rahman Azera Parveen began her career a decade back with
Mail Today of the India Today group. Then she moved to the
Indo-Asian News Service (IANS). At present, she is a freelance
writer based in Guwahati and writes for different publications, including the Times group, the Hindu, IANS, Women's
Feature Service, and Free Press Journal newspaper. Her forte
lies in development stories, especially those that focus on
health, women and children. She has written on healthcare of women and
children in Assam's tea gardens and river islands. Her work on child labour in
Delhi's zari units won her the Anupama Jayaraman national award for the
most promising woman journalist in 2008. In 2011, she received the Laadli
Media award for her story on climate change affecting the lives of women in
India's NorthEast.
Phone : +91 - 9854048898
Phone: +91 - 9810371911
Ramachandran Asha is the Features Editor with the Delhi
bureau of The Statesman. Besides the feature pages of the
newspaper, she brings out supplements to the main edition.
She also reports and writes on the policy issues of the
government, mainly on environment and economic matters.
Earlier as Special Correspondent with the newspaper, she
covered various ministries of the central government, the
Prime Minister's office and the proceedings of Parliament.
Before this she worked with the Mint. Asha has also worked with Down To
Earth, an environment and science fortnightly brought out by the Centre for
Science and Environment as well as the Press Trust of India, a premier news
agency. She is a fellow of LEAD (Leadership in Environment and
Development), as well as of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. While in
Canada for her fellowship she researched on the 'economics of environment'
at the Concordia University in Montreal. She is also a member of the Forum of
Financial Writers, an association of financial journalists of India.
Phone: +91 - 9811413364
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Rai Usha is a Delhi-based journalist with over five decades of
experience. She worked for over 35 years with mainline
newspapers including Times of India, Indian Express and the
Hindustan Times. A pioneer in development journalism, Usha
is at present a freelancer and writes for The Hindu, Indian
Express, Hindu Business Line and the Sunday Guardian on
various issues including population, HIV and AIDS, adolescent
reproductive and sexual health, maternal and child mortality, family planning, sex selection, child rights and environment. Earlier, as deputy director of
the Press Institute of India, Usha conducted media workshops on population,
health and development issues. Additionally, she brought out a quarterly
newsletter called `People' in English and `Hum Log' in Hindi which ran stories
on population and development issues from the grassroots. She has conducted a study on the status of women journalists in the print media and two
studies on the status of widows in Vrindvan and one on programmes and
policies for widows in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka for UN Women. Recently, she
did a series of articles for Plan India, documented in a book on innovative
ways of tackling skewed child sex ratio.
Ramakant Bobby has been writing on health and development issues since 1991. He has written extensively on TB and
its linkages, non communicable diseases, HIV and AIDS and its
impact in India and in the Asia and Pacific region, social justice
and human rights. Bobby has covered several national and
international conferences on development issues. He has
received Falling Walls Science Journalism Fellowship in Berlin
2013, HIV Vaccine Journalism Fellowship 2012, National Press
Foundation Lung Health Fellowship 2009, and the WHO Director-General's
WNTD award in 2008, among others.
Phone: +91-9839073355
Rashid Afsana is a Srinagar-based journalist and represents
Milli Gazette, an English fortnightly from Delhi. A journalist
since 2002, she has worked with the Tribune, Dainik Bhaskar,
Kashmir Times, Etalaat (English), Kashmir Images and ETV
Urdu. She has also worked with the international news
websites, Global Press Institute and Women International
Perspective, California. Author of the book, Widows and Half
Widows: Saga of extra-judicial arrests and killings in Kashmir,
she has won the Charkha Communications Development Network's Sanjoy
Ghose Humanitarian award for story writing and Sanjoy Ghose Media
fellowship for role of women journalists in conflict areas in 2006 and 2007.
She received the 2007 Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network, North,
and the Bhoruka Charitable Trust Media Awards for best reporting on
grassroots innovations from northern India. She won the UNFPA-Laadli Media
award for reporting on gender issues twice (2008, 2009) and the 2005
ActionAid India fellowship to study the impact of conflict on subsistence
livelihood of marginalized communities in Kashmir and alternatives. She has
attended a workshop on resolving conflict organized by Thomson Foundation
at Cardiff and Belfast, UK.
Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Phone: +91 - 9419008872
Rehman Teresa is an award-winning journalist based in Northeast India. She
had worked with India Today magazine, The Telegraph and Tehelka before she
assumed her new role as a media entrepreneur. She is the managing editor of
The Thumb Print and calls her webzine an international magazine with a
Northeastern soul. She has won accolades for her work and has been
awarded the WASH Media awards 2009-2010, Ramnath Goenka Journalism
Phone: +91-99540968002
Sainath P is a former Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu and is a
journalism teacher. Sainath has covered the countryside fulltime for 22 of the 35 years he has been in the profession. In
2014, he launched the People's Archive of Rural India, an
online living journal and an archive to capture the 'everyday
lives of everyday people' of rural India. The first of its kind in
India, PARI will generate reporting on the countryside while
also creating a database of already published stories, reports,
videos and audios on rural India. The Mumbai-based Sainath has won several
awards including the 2014 World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence
in Public Welfare reporting, 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Prize for journalism, and
was the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International's Global
Human Rights Journalism Prize in 2000. As the first holder of the
ThoughtWorks Chair Professor of Rural India and Digital Knowledge at the
Asian College of Journalism in Chennai, he will continue working with and
training journalists in covering rural India. His book, Everybody Loves a Good
Drought , a non-fiction bestseller, is now in its 43rd print.
Phone:+91 - 9869212127
Sarang Santosh, a social activist turned journalist, is based in
Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Despite limited resources, Santosh runs
the only women's video programme, Appan Samachar,
promoting rural journalism from the Naxal affected area of
Ramlila Gachi, Bihar. It is a programme on women and by
women but put together by Santosh. Every month the
programme is shown to rural audiences who may not have
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award for two consecutive years (2008-09 and 2009-10) for
the category 'Reporting on J&K and the Northeast (Print). She
received the Laadli Media award for Gender Sensitivity 2011,
Sanskriti award 2009 for Excellence in Journalism and the
Seventh Sarojini Naidu Prize 2007 for Best Reporting on
panchayati raj by The Hunger Project. She was also featured in
the power list of Femina magazine in 2012. She has special
interest in water and sanitation related issues. She was part of
a series of high-level meetings on women and HIV/AIDS policy-making at the
UN headquarters in New York and the US Congress in Washington DC in 2008.
access to television. The CNN-IBN group has recognised his performance in
adverse conditions and awarded him the prestigious “Citizen Journalist
Award” in 2008. Earlier, in 2004 he received the Anuvrat Samman from Bihar
Rajya Anuvrat Shikhak Sansad for the best relief work during flood. Currently
he works as Sub Editor with Prabhat Khabar, Muzaffarpur, and has published
more than 150 articles in different magazines on developmental issues and
environmental concerns. He was awarded the South Asia Climate Change
Award Fellowship by PANOS. He has written for Prayavaran Darshan, India
Innovates and Gaon Ghar of Doordarshan, Patna.
Phone : +91 - 9471473109
Savad Rahman PK is a Senior Correspondent with
Madhyamam, a Malayalam daily published from Kerala and
Middle East countries. He specializes in human rights and
environmental issues. Savad won the 2005 Development
Journalist of Asia award given by the Asian Development Bank
Institute in Tokyo. He received the 2007 World Journalism
prize instituted by the World Editors Forum and Alliance
Network, France. He has also received several media fellowships including the
2006 UNDP-HDRN media award, 2012 CSE social environmental responsibility fellowship and the 2013 NFI national media fellowship.
Phone: +91 - 9995431420
Sehgal Rashme is currently a freelance journalist based in
Delhi. Having worked in several leading newspapers including
The Asian Age, The Times of India and The Telegraph, Rashme
has specialised in writing on environmental issues with
special focus on water and wild life. She also writes extensively on gender and health issues. She is presently contributing articles to Rediff.com, Asian Age and some international
magazines.
Phone:+91 - 9958110102
Shah Rajiv is based in Gujarat and edits counterview.net, a news portal. The
news portal is supported by several NGOs working on health and develop-
Phone: +91 - 9426072412
Sharda Shailvee is the Principal Correspondent of The Times
of India in Lucknow. She writes on gender and development,
culture, tourism and politics. She interned with The Pioneer
for a year before joining TOI in 2004. She received the 2014
media fellowship for reporting on child survival from the
National Foundation For India and the 2013 Laadli Media
Award for best reporting on the issue of sex selective abortions. She also shared her story on how ultrasound centres
were reaching out to families wanting sex determination through the
network of ASHA workers at a national workshop on the Pre Conception, Pre
Natal Diagnostic Technique Act in 2014. Her reporting on tuberculosis and its
linkages with poverty won her the 2013 media fellowship by the International
Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
Phone:+91 - 9415403635
Sharma Abha is a Jaipur-based freelance journalist and writes
on gender, development and current issues. She contributes
to BBC India (online and radio), Women's Feature Service,
Grassroots, Harmony and Lokayat among others. She writes in
Hindi and English and has worked for over 13 years as the
Rajasthan correspondent for Deccan Herald covering social
and political issues. Abha was among the women journalists
chosen to visit Europe by the European Union in 2006 under
the project EU-India: Building Paths to Equality in Journalism. Among the
other awards won are the 2005 Indira Priyadarshini Patrakarita Puraskar for
outstanding women journalist of Rajasthan, Laadli media award for gender
sensitivity ( 2012-13, 2013-14) and the 2014 National Foundation for India's
Child Survival fellowship.
Phone: +91 - 9829214462
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ment issues. He blogs for The Times of India. Prior to this, as
the Times of India representative in Gandhinagar, he covered
various issues between 1997 and 2012. His last assignment
with The Times of India was as its political editor. Before he
joined The Times of India in 1993, he was in Moscow and
covered Gorbachev's rise and fall for the Patriot newspaper.
Sharma Dilip Kumar is working as a Senior Staff Reporter with
Dainik Purvoday, a Hindi daily published from Guwahati,
Assam, since February 2008. He also contributes to newspapers and magazines like Dainik Bhaskar, Hello Hindustan,
Dinamalar, and bdnews24.com, Bangladesh's first internet
newspaper. He has previously worked for The Sentinel and
Pratha Khabar in Guwahati. He has covered social, political,
economic and cultural issues pertaining to NorthEast and
gained critical insight into issues related to insurgency and ethnic conflicts
during his 13 years of journalism. In 2012, he received a media fellowship
from National Foundation for India to write on problems of unorganized coal
mining in Meghalaya.
Phone: +91 - 943543745
Sharma Dinesh C is a Delhi-based award winning journalist
and author with 30 years of experience of reporting on
science, technology, health and environment related issues
for national and international media outlets. Currently, his
columns appear in Mail Today, India Today, DNA, Deccan
Herald, Hindu Business Line and Metro India. He also writes
for international medical and environment journals. His latest
book on health policies -Know Your Heart: The Hidden Links Between Your
Body and the Politics of the State, was published by HarperCollins Publishers
in 2014. In the past he worked for the Press Trust of India, Observer of
Business and Politics, The Telegraph, Television Eighteen, India Today Group,
CNET.com, Bangkok Post and Asia Business News. He was awarded New India
Fellowship by the New India Foundation in 2006.
Phone:+91 - 9891118575
Sharma Kalpana is an independent journalist and columnist
based in Mumbai. She writes "The Other Half" column in The
Hindu and is currently consulting editor with Economic and
Political Weekly. In over four decades as a journalist she has
worked with Himmat Weekly, Indian Express, Times of India
and The Hindu. She writes on environmental and developmental issues, urban development, gender and the media. A
recipient of the Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman
Phone: +91 - 9820081662
Sharma Supriya is currently the News Editor of Scroll.in, a
digital news outlet, and is based in Delhi. Supriya has worked
with NDTV and The Times of India, reporting on change,
conflict, development and the political economy. She has
done reporting stints in Mumbai, Patna, Raipur and New
Delhi. As an investigative reporter in television journalism
with NDTV, Mumbai, she posed as a Muslim housewife to
expose the bias that exists in Mumbai's housing market. She
also reported on drought, farm distress and malnutrition in the tribal areas of
Maharashtra. She went to Bihar to pinpoint child trafficking on the IndoNepali border before switching to The Times of India to investigate the Maoist
conflict in Chhattisgarh. Her most recent work was a 2,500-mile rail journey
across seven states to report on the mood of the people before the 2014
general election for Scroll.in. The 2015 Chameli Devi Award is among the
many honours she has won for her consistent body of work.
Phone: +91 - 9820699598
Shastri Ritambhara is presently an editor with the People's
Archive of Rural India (PARI) and based in Delhi. She is also
engaged on gender and water issues in Bundelkhand through
the European Union-supported project on women's first right
to water. Prior to this she was Chief News Editor in the United
News of India for over 30 years and worked extensively on
women, child and development issues. Her first story on
female foeticide carried out by an Amritsar couple in 1981
created a furore inside and outside Parliament. Ritambhara has covered the
women's movement and attended international conferences on women and
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Journalist in 1986 and the Laadli Award for Gender Sensitive writing in 2003,
she has been a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, US, in
1982-83, a fellow at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Chicago, in 1998 and
visiting faculty at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California,
Berkeley, USA, in 2014. She is author of Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from
Asia's Largest Slum (Penguin, 2000) and has co-edited "Whose News? The
Media and Women's, Issues (Sage, 1994/2006) and Terror Counter Terror:
Women Speak Out (Kali for Women, 2003) and edited "Missing: Half the
Story, Journalism as if Gender Matters" (Zubaan, 2010).
religion. Her stories women, children, religion, education and health reached
all over the country through print and electronic media subscribers of UNI.
She has authored reports on the World Women's Conference as well as on
"Ten Years of Widowhood" for the Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC).
Ritambhara is among the founding members of the IWPC.
Phone:+91 - 9811481108
Shukla Asha is a senior freelance journalist writing in Hindi
and was associated with Navbharat, a Raipur-based daily, for
20 years till 2008, handling news and features. She was a
faculty member for 10 years and head of journalism department of the Champadevi Jain Ratrikaleen Vidyalaya, Raipur,
for five years. She taught journalism in a Bhannupratapur
college in Kanker district, affiliated to the Kushabhau Thakre
Patrikarita Vishwavidyalaya. A resource person for developing
writing skills, she has worked with adivasi children, social activists and rural
writers. Currently she is working with the Madhurao Sapre Research Centre at
Bastar. Her articles have been published in Navbharat, Dainik Chhattisgarh
and The Tribune, Chandigarh. The Charkha Feature Service also syndicated
her articles. Her areas of concern are empowerment of tribal women and
development issues of dalits and adivasis. She made the documentary film
Eknadikimaut on the Kurkut river in Raigarh district which was threatened by
a power plant. She received the Panos fellowship and the Swiss Aid fellowship
for writing on the health of dalit women and Baiga tribals. Asha was awarded
the Vasundhara Samman of Chhattisgarh and the Renowned Woman
Journalist award by Hidyatullah Law University, Chhattisgarh.
Phone: +91 - 9893478277
Singh Ashok is a freelance journalist and heads Janmat Shodh
Sansthan, a research organisation working on issues related
to media, education, advocacy and capacity building. His
writings have appeared in several regional and national
newspapers and magazines.A journalist and social activist, he
conducts training workshops for students as well as media
professionals. His area of interest for research is tribal life and
culture. He runs the Janmat feature agency and every year
gives awards to five to 10 journalists working in the Santhal Pargana region. In
2005 he helped compile a directory of Jharkhand journalists. For the
Phone: +91 - 9431339804
Singh Bhasha is a Delhi-based senior journalist working in
mainstream media for almost two decades. Currently she is
working as Chief of Bureau with Outlook Hindi. Writing mainly
on issues related to marginalised sections of the society, she is
also author of Adrishya Bharat and UNSEEN, books on truth
about manual scavenging in India, published by Penguin.
Additionally, she has also reported extensively on farmer
suicides, nuclear energy and minorities. She has also been
awarded many fellowships including the Ramnath Goenka award for Best
Journalist of the year. She has also received Sanskriti Prabha Dutt Fellowship,
National Foundation of India Fellowship and Panos Fellowship for her work.
Phone: +91 - 9818755922
Sinha Shailendra is a freelance journalist and web page
designer, based in Dumka, Jharkhand. He writes for Charkha
Development Communication Network, Delhi, Sopan Step,
All India Radio, Bhagalpur, Shwet Patra, Deoghar and Apni
Ranchi. His articles have appeared in Yojana, Kurukshetra,
Civil Society, ANI news agency, The Hindu, Yahoo News.com,
Agriculture Today, Kashmir Times, India water portal.org, Hari
Bhumi, Bhopal, Central Chronicle, Bhopal, Lokmat, Mumbai,
Sambad Manthan, Ranchi, Jug Srijol (in Santali) Kolkata, Hindustan, Delhi,
Dainik Bhaskar, Bhagalpur, Prabhat Khabar, Ranchi, among others. His articles
have appeared in Santhali, Bangla and Urdu publications. CARE and
Population Foundation of India have given him fellowships and his areas of
research include primitive Paharia tribals, health status of Santhal women
and children, traditional tribal medicines and healing practices (horopathy)
and tribal culture and traditions.
Phone: 06434-223912, +91 - 9546775307
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Education Department of Jharkhand he has conducted creative writing
workshops for Kasturba Balika Vidyalaya students.Among the awards
received are the ones from Charkha for grassroots writing, fellowship from
NFI and the Jharkhand Information and Broadcasting department's award for
research based journalism.
Srivastav Pradip Kumar is currently a Senior Sub Editor with
Amar Ujala and based in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh. As a 2014
fellow of the National Foundation for India, he focused on
writing and gaining a better understanding of reporting on
health related issues, especially maternal and infant mortality, in Uttar Pradesh. He has previously worked for Sahara
Samay, a Gorakhpur-based weekly Hindi newspaper, Yash TV,
a Gorakhpur city news channel, and The Sunday Post in
Lucknow. Pradip's short stories have been published in Udbhavana, a Hindi
monthly literary magazine and his columns are regularly published in Samaj
aur Media and many other magazines. He also engages in translation work.
Phone: +91 - 9454818754, +91 - 9675501628
Surin Pradeep is a Delhi-based Special Correspondent with
the Dainik Bhaskar. He writes on health, social justice, rural
development and women and child issues. Beginning with
CNN-IBN in 2005, he switched to print. He also conducts
debates and chat shows on health for All India Radio. He has
been awarded several media fellowships including the
National Press Foundation Fellowship to cover the 44th Union
World Conference on Lung Health in Paris, France and the
15th World Conference on Tobacco in Singapore.
Phone-+91 - 9711131075
Tandon Aditi a Delhi-based Special Correspondent of The
Tribune. In journalism for 17 years, she covers gender,
development and politics. She has written on a range of
subjects including human rights violations in Jammu and
Kashmir, honour crimes in the UK, trafficking of children for
sex ahead of 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, the state
of women inmates in Punjab's central jails and politics.
Starting her career as sub editor with The Indian Express in
Chandigarh, Aditi moved to reporting as the district court correspondent. A
series on the living conditions of juveniles in custody in Chandigarh led to the
Punjab and Haryana High Court issuing suo motu notices to the Chandigarh
Administration. She is the recipient of the 2011 UNFPA-Laadli Media award
for Best Investigative Story (Northern Region), Special Commendation by
Chameli Devi Jury award and UNFPA-Laadli Media award for Best Gender
Phone: +91 - 9999871624,011 - 23233065
Thomas Mini P is a Bangalore-based Senior Correspondent
with The Week magazine and has been working there for the
last six years. She has written on various health, development
and gender issues including female genital mutilation,
Endosulfan victims and child brides of India. She has received
the PII-ICRC and PII-SCARF award and a honourable mention
in the 2014 Chameli Devi Jain award in the category for an
Outstanding Woman Journalist. Mini started her career as a
television reporter and anchor. She has done stories for CNN-IBN, NDTV, Star
Plus and Doordarshan.
Email- [email protected], [email protected]
Phone : +91 - 9880611404
Vasdev Kanchan is an award winning journalist with over 17
years of experience. Based in Chandigarh, she is currently
Special Correspondent with The Indian Express. She has
travelled in Punjab and Haryana covering elections, social
issues and exposing the lack of development. The youngest
female bureau chief of the Tribune newspaper, where she
worked earlier, Kanchan was awarded Prabha Dutt Memorial
Award for her stories on the abandoned brides of Punjab. She
also won Investigative Journalist Award by the Press Club, Chandigarh, in
2006 for her reporting on children of a Punjab village, who burnt their legs
due to dumping of industrial ash on their playgrounds. The ensuing uproar
forced the government to shut down the factory. As a Fellow of the Centre for
Science and Environment (CSE), she highlighted the plight of women caused
by water pollution in the Sutlej river. Her stories on the toxicity caused by
Budda Nullah, a river transformed into a sewer drain in Ludhiana, also had an
impact.
Phone:+91 - 9814809997
Verma Chetna is an Assistant Editor with Civil Society, the monthly magazine
on development and social issues, published from Gurgaon. She has written a
series of articles on 'women in conflict' that focus on the positive stories of
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Sensitive Writing in 2008 and the 2005 British Chevening Scholarship. She
has twice served as Member, Lok Sabha Press Advisory Committee.
women who are valiantly fighting against denial and deprivation that they constantly face in conflict situations. Earlier, she
worked as Assistant Editor with Charkha Development
Communication Network, Delhi, and travelled extensively to
work with rural communities living in the conflict-affected,
remote regions of Jammu and Kashmir like Poonch, Kishtwar
and Kargil. Her work focused on training rural youth to write
on their development issues and generate stories to be edited
and placed in national and regional media via Charkha's trilingual features
service. As a recipient of the National Media Fellowship of the National
Foundation for India, she worked in the states of Jammu and Kashmir and
Uttarakhand highlighting stories on women's health in the context of climate
change. She has also been awarded the Laadli award for gender sensitive
reporting in 2013-14.
Email [email protected]
Phone: +91 - 8860844210
Yousuf Shazia is a freelance journalist based in Srinagar. She
focuses on gender and human rights. Previously, she worked
for Kashmir Life as its social affairs correspondent and wrote
on Kashmiri women and their experiences during conflict. In
2011, her work won her the prestigious Ford Foundation
Fellowship to study Print and Multimedia Journalism from
Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts. Since 2013, she has
freelanced for various publications including Guernica
Magazine, Inter Press Service, Women's Feature Service, Women's
International Perspective, Greater Kashmir and Rising Kashmir. In 2014, she
was awarded a two-year fellowship by Panos South Asia to write on the
impact of militarization on Kashmiri women.
Phone::+91 - 9796757708
Zakir Mohammed is a journalist working with Haribhoomi
and is based in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh. He began with the BhilaiDurg bureau of Dainik Bhaskar and began writing on issues
related to steel sector and iron ore mines, rural life and films.
He also worked for Dainik Jagran and Dainik Chhattisgarh. In
2014, a media fellowship offered by National Foundation of
India gave him the chance to work on the conditions of
women contract laborers in the steel sector and bonded
labour of Chhattisgarh. He continues to write on the constantly changing
Phone: +91 - 9425558442
Photograph by Raghu Rai
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social landscape, especially in rural India and issues related to the steel
industry for his newspaper as well as in his blog. He has been awarded first
'Rameshwaram Rashtriya Patrakarita Samman' in 2004 by renowned veteran
journalist and writer Achyutanand Mishra.
Photograph by Ananda Banerjee
Phone:+91 - 9811466766
Das Sucheta, a Kolkata-based photographer, has worked with
several news agencies like Reuters International, Gulf News,
Dubai, and Associated Press over the past 18 years. She has
participated in several workshops conducted by eminent
photographers including Raghu Rai, Steve McCurry and Atul
Kasbekar. She runs her own photo institute called Images
Redefined in Kolkata. She has won over 50 international and
national awards including World Press Photo award, National Geography
Award, Master Cup, award from Hopkin University and University of British
Columbia, World Gala Award, National Press Photo award, and National
Medial Grants. Her pictures have appeared in national and international
publications like Time, Washington Post, London Times and others. Her
photographs were selected for the book on the best of Reuter's photography
The Art of Seeing 2 and was one of the cover pictures for the Reuters
magazine. She has done more than 160 solo and group exhibitions in India
and abroad.
Phone: +91 - 9830796777
Datta Arko is a Mumbai-based Pulitzer award nominee and winner of the
'Picture of the Year' at the World Press Photo 2004. He is at present Photo
Editor at Mumbai Mirror and also teaches at the Udaan School of
Photography. He has covered news and sports extensively across the world
for the last two decades, which includes wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the
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Bedi Vijay is a Delhi-based freelance cameraman and editor.
The third generation of wildlife film makers in a family that has
a long history of expertise in this highly specialized field, Vijay
and his twin Ajay Bedi are the youngest Asians to have won
the Wildscreen Awards known as Green Oscar for their films
The Policing Langur and the Cherub of the Mist. Vijay has
worked as a cameraperson and editor for leading national and
international channels like CNN International, Aljazeera English, Canadian
Television, BBC, Channel 4 Television, Doordarshan, PBS Now, TF1 French
Channel, ZDF Channel, National Geographic, Discovery Channel and
Discovery Science Channel. He runs his own production house (Bedi
Universal) and is working on a film on amphibians of India.
Kargil conflict, summer Olympics and, cricket world cups. His
work has regularly appeared in most of the leading
newspapers and magazines like The New York Times,
Washington Post, Guardian, International Herald Tribune,
Time magazine, Newsweek and The Economist. Arko started
his career at the Indian Express and has also worked for the
Telegraph, AFP and Reuters.
Phone:+ 91 - 9820519611
Katragadda Harikrishna is a photographer based in Mumbai.
After a B.Tech degree from IIT Madras, he discovered his
passion for photography while documenting the Narmada
Bachao Andolan. He later studied photojournalism at the
University of Texas and then worked as a staff photographer at
Mint in New Delhi between 2006 to 2009. Interested mainly in
long term photography projects, he has travelled widely to
document isolated communities and development initiatives of NGOs. His
work was awarded by the Media Foundation of India, South Asian Journalists
Association, National Foundation for India and The Poynter Institute and has
been exhibited at the Goethe Institute, India Habitat Centre, Delhi Photo
Festival and the Angkor Wat Photo Festival. His photographs have appeared
extensively in print and online including Fountain Ink, India Today, Caravan,
Vanity Fair, Stern, Geo, Missio Aktuel, Internazionale, New York Times,
Greenpeace and BBC.
Phone: +91 - 8454847735
Kaur Ruhani is a Delhi-based photojournalist and was Photo
Editor of Open Magazine until 2014. Her work has been
published in Yo Dona - El Mundo's Magazine, Gulf News, Days
Japan Magazine, Maariv and Yedioth Ahronoth, newspapers
based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Quartz, The Atlantic, Platform, Indian
Express, Down to Earth, Outlook Magazine, Mint, First City
Magazine, Voices Unabridged, The Little Magazine, Femina,
Indrama, Namaste and Discover India. She has been commissioned by several
national and international organizations including UNICEF, UNDP, Voices
Unabridged, Ashoka Foundation, Aga Khan Foundation, HelpAge India, CRY,
Jagori, Schoolnet and Greenpeace. She won the 2006 Days Japan
PhotoJournalism Grand Prix award for India's Invisible Women, a photostory
on repercussions of female foeticide, done as a part of the National
Foundation for India fellowship. She has exhibited her photographs at the
Photo Biennale, Daegu, South Korea, Days Japan Exhibition in Tokyo, Nagoya
and Kyoto, Japan, and at various exhibitions in Delhi.
Kolari Srikanth is a Delhi-based freelance photojournalist
represented by REDUX Photo Agency, New York. In 2012 he
was selected for the prestigious Visa pour l'image, France and
the Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia. His photographs have
exhibited in Scotland, Croatia, Italy, France, Belgium and
Cambodia as well as in many solo shows across India. Some of
his works were chosen for Twenty Best Solo Exhibitions of
India by The Škoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art, 2011. He was awarded
the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence Programme in 2011. His work was
selected for an upcoming illustrated book on the world of contemporary
Indian art titled ”PASSAGES Indian Art Today“ to be published by Daab Media,
Cologne, Germany. He continues to travel in conflict afflicted regions and
covering individuals and cultural groups affected by war, poverty and
prejudice.
Phone: +91 - 994439446
Mallick Natisha is a Delhi-based freelance documentary
photographer. She concentrates on stories of social
importance and hopes to bring about a change through her
images. Besides contributing to TwoCircles.Net, an online
news media portal, Natisha co-curates their annual Ramzan
series, which focuses on breaking away from stereotypical
pictures of Muslims. She received the Child Survival media
award 2014-15 from the National Foundation for India for her photo project
The Edge, which documented the role of midwives and registered medical
practioners in rural Bengal. Other awards received include the 2013 Neel
Dongre Award/Grant for excellence in photography by India Photo Archive
Foundation, Honorable Mention at Photocrati Fund, scholarship to attend
the Angkor Photo Workshop, Siem Reap, Cambodia, and the Oslo University
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Phone: +91 - 9899567449
College (OUC) Grant by Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry during OUC
exchange workshop at Kolkata.
Phone: +91 - 9873551881
Olwe Sudharak is a Mumbai-based photographer and has
captured changes in society and the reality of life in India
through his images for the past 25 years. He has documented
numerous experiences of mothers in tribal areas of
Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam and Manipur, women in
prostitution and HIV survivors, and, the life and times of
Tamasha community and neo-Buddhist communities. He has
produced four documentary films on development issues. Among the many
awards won include the prestigious All Roads Photographers award from
National Geographic Society for his first book, Spirited Souls: Winning
Women of Mumbai and the National Foundation Media Fellowship. His work
was published in the World Press Photo: New Stories as a part of the series on
the Millennium Development Goals. Manfrotto chose him as their brand
ambassador for his work on conservancy workers and in 2015 the Brihan
Mumbai Corporation Commissioner along with the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust
launched his book on conservancy workers 'In Search of Dignity and Justice'
with a foreword by Ratan N. Tata. He has participated in several international
exhibitions.
Phone: +91 - 9820904212
Panjiar Prashant is a self-taught photographer based in Delhi.
He worked as a photojournalist and editor in several
publications like the Patriot, India Today and the Outlook
Group. Prashant has been working independently since 2001
and specializes in reportage, editorial and documentary
photography. He works on a range of social issues for
international non-profits in Asia and Africa. He has served on
the jury of the World Press Photo Awards in Amsterdam in 2002, the China
International Press Photo Competition in 2005, and the National Foundation
of India Photography Fellowships. Prashant is co-founder and managing
trustee of Nazar Foundation, a non-profit trust for the promotion of the
photographic arts and also the co-founder and one of the creative directors of
the Delhi Photo Festival.
Priyadarshi Neeraj began with The Indian Express in Mumbai
and is now its National Photo Editor in Delhi. He has covered
the Mumbai riots, the Gowari tribals stampede where more
than a hundred died, lives of Dharavi slum dwellers, 7/11
Mumbai terrorist attacks, floods, malnutrition deaths in
Melghat, visits of US Presidents and Michael Jackson, and
national elections. He visited Afghanistan to document the
nation's rebuilding in 2005 and also covered the 2008 bomb attack on the
Indian Embassy. He has received the 2008 Ramnath Goenka Indian Press
Photography award for his coverage of the bird flu endemic and the 2014
Press Council of India award. He was an invitee at the Click art photography
festival in Singapore along with Steve Mccurry in 2003 and helped to organize
India's first International photography festival in New Delhi in October 2011.
His photos of Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia were exhibited jointly with
eminent photographer Raghu Rai on the flute maestro's sixtieth birthday.
Besides working on personal projects, he teaches photography to the
students of the Indian Express Media School in New Delhi.
Email: [email protected],[email protected]
Phone:-+91 - 9810244642
Pushkarna Pramod is an award winning photographer and
currently the Group Photo Editor at The Sunday Guardian. He
is based in Delhi. He started out as a photojournalist with The
National Herald almost 50 years ago. His work as a news
photographer at India Today for 25 years brought stories to
life and earned accolades for his eye for detail. Whether it was
capturing the images of the Nellie massacre in Assam,
Operation Blue Star to Black Thunder in Punjab, the Hazrat Bal siege and
Charar-e-Sharief debacle in Jammu and Kashmir, the Kargil conflict, the Morvi
floods and the Uttarakand earthquakes, Pramod has used his lens to tell
stories that transformed India. He was the first Indian photographer to enter
Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and record the lives of soldiers at the Siachen
glacier. His lens continues to capture the change sweeping through the
country. Pramod's photographs have been published in international
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Phone: +91 - 9811051887
newspapers and magazines, and he has trained many in the art of news
photography.
Phone:+91 - 9810045182
Rai Raghu is a Delhi-based photographer and his unique
images have been amazing the photographic world for five
decades. He was awarded the Padamshree in 1971 and
honoured as Photographer of the Year in 1993 in the United
States. He was invited to join the jury of the World Press Photo
Foundation, Picture of the Year Contest three times in the last
decade. Raghu's photo essays have appeared in many of the
world's most influential magazines and newspapers. He has published
numerous books, including Bangladesh: The Price of Freedom, Raghu Rai's
Delhi, The Sikhs, Tibet in Exile, India, and Mother Teresa. Some other picture
books include Outside the Margins for Save the Children, Refugees in India for
UNHCR, photo essays for Chintan Organisation and on the Bhopal gas tragedy
after 30 years for Amnesty International.
Phone: 011 - 2664 1930
Roshan Nikhil is a Delhi-based independent photographer
with a keen interest in visually documenting environmental
degradation, working class struggles and migration. He began
his career with a news channel in Mumbai and later worked as
a feature writer and editor covering the arts, culture and
politics for The Indian Express and Timeout in Mumbai and
The Bengal Post, Kolkata. His photographs have appeared in
The Hindu, Frontline, FountainInk, Narrative, Fabrica, Corierre Della Sera,
Internationale and the British Journal of Photography, as well as a book on
forced migration by the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group. Nikhil is the
co-author of a collection of oral histories and photographs on displacement
caused by coal mining in Chhattisgarh, released by Earthcare Books. As a
2014-15 media fellow with the National Foundation for India, he documented
life on the sandbanks of the Brahmaputra on the Indo-Bangladesh border in
Assam.
Phone: +91 - 8800167781
Phone: +91 - 9810059734, +91 - 9910024495
Solanki Surender is Delhi-based freelance photojournalist.
His photos have been published by the Caravan magazine,
Alajazeera News World, Sunday Guardian, Hindu Business
Line, Better Photography magazine, Hindustan Times and
Indian Express. He is interested in social issues and his photo
documentary on the Yamuna river won him the 2014 media
fellowship from National Foundation for India as well as an
award from the World Wild Fund to research and document via images, the
Yamuna river. He has also received the 2013 Award of Excellence from the Sri
Aurobindo Centre for Art & Communication in Delhi.
Phone: +91 - 8745037960, 011 - 25358024
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Sarvesh is an award winning freelance photojournalist based
in Delhi. She has travelled all over India and her photographs
have been published by many well known newspapers and
magazines. These include photographs taken during the Kargil
war, earthquakes in Uttarkashi and Gujarat, Sitamarhi riots in
Bihar, inside the dark pits of the coal mines in Dhanbad and
Jharia, as well as of the Ladakh Festival and the Himalayan car
rally. One of her photos on the Kargil war won her a government award. She
has held several exhibitions and conducted photo workshops. She has worked
with reputed publishing houses and undertaken photo documentation and
thematic photography for their books. Her special interest in women and
children has taken her to tribal areas in Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand,
Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Uttaranchal, and Himachal Pradesh.
Photograph by Prashant Panjiar
Website : www.aaranyak.org
Address : 50, Samanwoy Path, Survey, P.O. Beltola,
Guwahati -781028
Phone: +91 - 361 2230250
ActionAid India, which is based in Delhi, is the
Indian arm of ActionAid, a global movement of
people working together to further human rights
and defeat poverty for all. It has been working in India since 1972 with the
marginalised and dispossessed people to end poverty and injustice.
ActionAid India works in 25 states and one Union Territory and supports
people's legal, constitutional and moral rights to food and livelihood, shelter,
education, nutrition, dignity and a voice in decisions that affect their lives. It
partners local community organisations towards building a world in which
every person enjoys the right to life with dignity. ActionAid India is rooted
with communities and aspires to learn from people's actions and build on
alternatives emanating from people's own experiences.
Website :www.actionaid.org/india
Address: R 7, Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi-110016
Phone: 011 - 4064 0500
NGO
Aaranyak is a leading environment and bio-diversity
conservation organisation and is based in Guwahati,
Assam. It has been promoting research, education, and
advocacy of forests, wildlife and environment since 1989.
It works to preserve and restore ecological balance within
the Northeastern states of India and is recognized as a
scientific and industrial research organization by the
Ministry of Science and Technology . It is engaged in eliminating illegal trade
of wildlife and has adopted scientific applied research to provide new
avenues for sustainable livelihood generation. Aaranyak comprises a team of
environmental scientists, researchers, community workers, educators and
environmental legal specialists. Together they have developed a number of
conservation strategies/programmes specific to the Northeast. The
programmes blend science and technology with the help of all stakeholders
to rediscover the traditional peaceful co-existence of man and wildlife in this
region. Seven major programmes form the core of Aaranyak's conservation
strategy.
Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India) is
a non government development organization
working to better lives of rural communities in
nearly 1900 villages in Gujarat, Madhya
Pradesh and Bihar. In Gujarat, AKRSP (India)
works in three environmentally challenged
and economically vulnerable regions; the
tribal blocks of Bharuch, Narmada, Surat, Tapi, Navsari and Dang, coastal
salinity-affected blocks of Junagadh, Porbandar and Jamnagar and, the
drought-prone blocks of Surendranagar, Rajkot and Wankaner. In Madhya
Pradesh, it has been working in the remote and poor districts of Khandwa,
Khargone, Barwani, Dhar and Burhanpur since 2004. In flood prone Bihar, the
organization has been working in Muzaffarpur and Samastipur districts since
2008 with interventions in primary education, healthcare and livelihood
promotion.
Website: www.akdn.org/rural_development/india.asp
Address: 9th and 10th Floor, Corporate house,
opposite Dinesh Hall, Ahmedabad -380009
Phone: +91-7927540421, 079 - 66312451
Alwar Mewat Institute of Education and
Development (AMIED) is a non government
organization based in Alwar, Rajasthan. AMIED
firmly believes that education plays a significant
role in socio economic development and cultural
enrichment of society and individuals. It is working
to bring the Meo Muslim community in the education fold in seven blocks of
Alwar and Bharatpur districts, with special focus on getting more girls to
school. It runs residential and non-residential bridge courses for girls to
facilitate their entry into mainstream educational institutions. It is building
community ownership of village schools to promote greater access to
education. Besides promoting education, it is also working on women's
empowerment in Mewat.
Website : www.amiedmewat.org
Address: 11, Bhatiya colony , Manna ka Road , Alwar-301001
Phone: 014 - 42371346, +91 - 9413304746
Website: www.arunodhayacentre.org
Address: 15 Bazaar street, Royapuram, Chennai-600 013
Phone:+91 - 9444051529 , 044 - 42632264, 25902283
Astha Sansthan is based in Udaipur, Rajasthan, and
works on gender, development and human rights. It
engages with people's organizations to raise awareness
within communities about the government's laws and its
implementation, particularly the Right to Work, Right to
Education, and Right to Food. It has pioneered a
development model of empowering single women
comprising widows, separated, divorced, deserted,
older-never-married women on various issues including land and property
rights, changing cruel caste/community customs, addressing domestic
violence in natal and marital homes. By expanding the single women network
to other states and creating a National Forum for Single Women's Rights, it
has been able to facilitate advocacy for better policies, rules, schemes, laws
and livelihoods for single women. Astha also works with tribals and differently
abled persons to help them realize their rights. It provides skills and
knowledge to elected women representatives of panchayati raj institutions to
better understanding of their duties.
NGO
Arunodhaya centre for street and working children
started in 1992 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, with the twin
objective of eliminating child labour and promoting
child rights. Arunodhaya developed a model of
elimination of child labour using a multi-pronged
strategy by mobilizing community support and making
the community responsible for ensuring child rights.
Programmes are developed to address issues of child
development, child protection and child participation
through a process of community empowerment. Its
interventions have reached 50 slums in Chennai where it
has formed community based organizations (CBOs) with children, women
and youth groups which advocate and fight for the rights of children. The
CBOs have addressed issues of child sexual abuse, released child labourers,
improved infrastructure in schools, brought government schools in areas
where there was no school, monitored implementation of RTE, identified
drop outs and enrolled them in schools. It is also working to empower
communities, particularly women, affected by the tsunami.
Website: www.astha.org
Address:39, Kharol Colony, Udaipur-313 004
Phone: 0294 - 245 1348
Bachpan Bachao Andolan, (BBA) is a
pioneering grassroots movement in India
for the protection of children from
exploitation and abuse. Kailash Satyarthi,
who received the 2014 Nobel Peace award
for his work to end child labour, founded the organisation in 1980. BBA is
headquartered in Delhi and has branches in Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Jharkhand,
Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Meerut, Punjab, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh.
BBA ensures the rights of children through their protection, preventing their
exploitation, building partnerships and coalitions for greater impact and
policy initiatives to improve services for children. BBA runs child friendly
village programmes and rehabilitation centres like Mukti Ashram and Bal
Ashram. It provides victim assistance and operates a school for the Banjara
community of Rajasthan. Since its inception, BBA has successfully liberated
more than 84,000 victims of trafficking and child labourers across the country
and has ensured education for more than 200,000 children. BBA aims to
create a child friendly society, where all children are free from exploitation
and receive free and quality education.
Website: www.bba.org.in
Address: L- 6, Kalkaji, New Delhi- 110019
Phone: +011 - 49211111, 26224899
Centre for Environment Education
(CEE) is engaged in pioneering
education and communication
towards raising awareness and action
on environment protection and sustainable development. Based in
Ahmedabad, CEE has been recognized as a Centre of Excellence in
environmental education by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and
Climate Change. Its programmes are centred on 21 thrust areas in
collaboration with a variety of partners and agencies, both government and
non government as well as national and international. For its extensive work
in environment education and education for sustainable development, CEE
has been conferred with global recognitions including the Ozone Layer
Protection award for 2009, instituted by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, the India NGO award 2007, the Srishti Good Green Governance
award 2006 and the Outstanding Service for Environmental Education award,
2005, given by the North American Association for Environmental Education .
Centre for Health, Education, Training and
Nutrition Awareness (CHETNA), is a
resource and support organisation which
addresses health, nutrition and education
concerns of women, children and young
people. The Ahmedabad-based CHETNA
embraces the life cycle approach of a
woman from the perspective of gender equity and human rights
acknowledging the power of indigenous health and healing. Its special focus
on the girl child, gender biased sex selection and diminishing sex ratio and,
maternal and newborn health has informed its strategies to raise health and
nutrition awareness and, ensure girls' enrolment and retention in schools and
develop innovative training/education modules and education material.
CHETNA has developed a wide range of extensively tested need based
behaviour change communication material on health, nutrition and
education. CHETNA Outreach has been initiated to mainstream and upscale
gender sensitive strategies and ensure that evidence based approaches of
CHETNA impact women worldwide.
Website: www.chetnaindia.org
Address : Supath-II, B-Block, 3rd Floor, Opp. Vadaj Bus Terminus,
Ashram Road, Vadaj, Ahmedabad-380013
Email : [email protected], [email protected]
Phone : 079 - 27559976/77
Centre for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ) is a Delhi-based civil society
institution working on reproductive and sexual health and rights, social
exclusion and community action for health rights. CHSJ works with women
from marginalized communities to raise awareness of their rights to maternal
health and safe abortion, counter effects of coercive population policies and
faciliate informed choice in contraception and quality of care in family
NGO
Website: www.ceeindia.org
Address: Sargam Marg, Bodakdev, Ahmedabad-380054
Email: [email protected],
Phone: 079-26858002/8005
planning programmes. CHSJ also has interventions to
engage men in dismantling patriarchy and promote
gender equality and social justice. It adopts a right
based approach to target the existing disparities
between populations in the allocation of health care
resources and works to strengthen accountability of
public health systems through research, resource
support and advocacy.
Website: www.chsj.org
Address: Basement of Young Women's Hostel No. 2,
Near Bank of India, Avenue 21, G Block, Saket, New Delhi- 110017
Phone: 011-26535203, 011 - 26511425
Childhood Enhancement through Training and
Action (CHETNA) works on the prevention,
protection and participation of street and working
children. Since 2002 CHETNA has mainstreamed
7000 children into government primary schools and
around 400 children into Open Basic Education
under the Open School. CHETNA is engaged with
over 4000 street and working children through 100
contact points in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya
Pradesh. Contact with the children is made by
reaching where they are. The contact point has 18 well-crafted activities
related to health, counseling and recreation. The most visible outcome of its
intervention is Badthe Kadam, a federation of street and working children and
their newspaper called Balak Nama. CHETNA also runs substance abuse harm
reduction centres, an Open Basic Education centre, and, a drop-in centre.
Additionally, it conducts sensitization and awareness training for police,
authorities, children and NGOs.
Website:, www.chetna-india.org
Address: Ground Floor, Manohar Kunj, Gautam Nagar, New Delhi
Phone: +91 - 9811432012, 40/22
CommonHealth, Coalition for Maternal-Neonatal Health and Safe Abortion
was constituted in 2006 to create a society that ensures maternal-neonatal
health care and safe abortion for all women, especially from the marginalized
communities in India. CommonHealth is a
coalition of organizations and individuals
from diverse constituencies and states
working to raise the visibility of the high
mortality and morbidity among mothers
and newborns and the lack of access to safe
abortion, especially among the disadvantaged. The coalition of over 100
institutional and individual members is led by a steering committee
comprising individuals with considerable expertise in maternal health, safe
abortion and neonatal health.
Communication for Development and Learning
(CDL) is a Bengaluru-based not for profit
organization set up in 1997 to integrate
communication as a part of the development
process. CDL creates and mainstreams innovative
approaches in development communication. These
have awards and fellowships to journalists as well as
developing comics and bi-lingual portals on social
issues. CDL builds capacity of journalists to write on development issues to
increase public awareness on social issues. A number of innovative models
are used to reach out to the journalist community and engage with the
newspapers to improve the quality of coverage. Issue-specific initiatives are
designed to build an interface between the mainstream media and field
agencies to encourage more informed and sustained coverage in the
newspapers. CDL uses media research to assess the existing coverage and
develops appropriate strategies for media engagement including. the
institution of the Charkha Awards for Excellence in Development Journalism,
Comics You Can Use and participatory training programmes on media literacy.
Website: www.cdlblr.org
Address: 11/A 6th Block, Cross 17th Main, Koramangala,
Bengaluru-560095
Phone: 080 - 25524192
NGO
Website: www.commonhealth.in
Gramin Punarnirman Sansthan, is a civil society
organization focusing on the empowerment of women
from Dalit and other marginalized communities and is
based in district Azamgarh of Uttar Pradesh. It works in
50 gram panchayts in Azamgarh district and five in
Ambedkarnagar district. It promotes awareness of
reproductive rights, maternal, neonatal and adolescent
health, safe motherhood and HIV and AIDS. It advocates for gender equality
and elimination of violence against women. It is building Mahila Sangathans
or women's groups at the Gram Panchayat level so that they can realize their
rights and ensure better functioning of local government institutions. Gramin
Punarnirman Sansthan is part of Mahila Swasthay Adhikar Manch (Women's
Forum for Health Rights) in Azamgarh. It is partnering other NGOs to sensitize
men and also conducts training workshops on child rights, education, health
and nutrition.
Website: www.gpsazm.org
Address : Bilari Village, P.O. Barhya (Atraulia), Azamgarh-223223
Email: [email protected], gps.azm@rediff mail.com
Phone: 05465 - 227130 ,+91 - 9451113651
Guild for Service is based in Delhi and works to empower
the most vulnerable among women and children across
north India. It advocates for changes in policy and laws to
help women and children tap their own strengths so that
they can take control of their lives. Founded by Mohini Giri,
the Guild runs a shelter home for widows called Ma Dham
in Chattikara, Vrindavan. The home, which has been
running for over two decades, provides widows food,
shelter, clothing, medical aid and helps them with skill
development. In addition to a family counseling centre, Ma Dham also houses
a primary school. The Guild runs several homes and facilities in Delhi, Sawai
Madhopur (Rajasthan) and in Kashmir. The Guild initiates, writes and presents
papers on policy suggestions, reviews of gender laws and gender impact of
projects, programmes and budgets both at national international fora.
Website: www.guildforservice.org
Address: C-25, Qutab Institutional Area, Qutab Institutional Area,
New Delhi-110016
Phone : 011 - 4101 3416
HelpAge India works to help elders lead
their lives with dignity and confidence.
Headquartered in Delhi, HelpAge India has
various interventions for senior citizens
including mobile healthcare, cataract surgery, active ageing centres,
physiocare and cancer care units. Besides working closely with senior citizen
associations and encouraging seniors to speak up for their rights, it also runs
initiatives like Support a Gran, Old Age Homes, Health Camps and Elder
Helplines. It acts like a pressure group to guarantee elders their right to
adequate health insurance, universal pension and pushes for age appropriate
services. Its Elder AdvantAge Groups under its AdvantAge Card programme,
helps in getting discounts in various services. HelpAge India also engages in
disaster management, providing rural livelihoods support through elder self
help groups and conducting macro research on the emerging issues of elderly.
Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) is a
collective of lawyers and social activists
advancing human rights with the help of
the legal system. Headquartered in Delhi,
HRLN collaborates with human rights
groups, and grassroots development and
social movements to enforce the rights of poor marginalised people. It has
branches in 24 states and challenges oppression, exploitation and
discrimination against any group or individual on the grounds of caste,
gender, disability, age, religion, language, ethnic group, sexual orientation,
and health, economic or social status. HRLN provides pro bono legal services,
conducts public interest litigation, engages in advocacy, conducts legal
awareness programmes, investigates violations, publishes 'know your rights'
materials, and participates in various campaigns including reproductive and
sexual health rights, women's and minority rights, HIV/AIDS and environment
justice. HRLN has a special section on Defend the Defenders which deals with
legal aid to journalists against whom criminal defamation cases have been
filed, or in jail on charges of sedition or have been the victims of assaults.
HRLN was active in the Supreme Court litigation on the Majithia Wage Board
Report.
NGO
Website: www.helpageindia.org
Address: C-14, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi-110016
Phone: 011 - 41688955 - 56
Toll Free Elder Helpline: 1800-180-1253
Address: 576, Masjid Road, Jungpura, New Delhi-110014
Phone: 011-24374501/ 24379855
India Water Portal (IWP) is a national
knowledge portal on water and related issues
set up by the National Knowledge
Commission in 2006. It is one of the foremost
sources of information in India for water,
sanitation, agriculture, the environment, climate change and biodiversity. It
includes issues that influence water or are related to it such as climate
change, sanitation and food security. It engages with local individuals and
organisations all over India to highlight and provide critical analyses on waterrelated issues. The network reaches out to people in remote areas to bring
out unique local stories. In addition, the portal curates easy-to-read list of
news and policy matters in a daily and weekly roundup of water-related
information from online and offline sources including Internet: news, policy
updates, and from government reports and data to inform and facilitate
action.
Website: www.indiawaterportal.org
Phone: 080 - 41698941
Jagori works with marginalized urban and rural women
on issues of violence against women, rights and
entitlements, leadership development and deepening
feminist consciousness. From pioneering the feminist
training methodology in India and designing feminist
resources for rural women, Jagori's interventions
includes action research studies, social and safety
audits, counselling and referral services for survivors of
violence, para-legal work, capacity building and
sensitization of stakeholders and, building community
leadership in urban resettlement colonies, among
others. It has led several innovative campaigns on ending violence against
women. Jagori's technical and training support to empower rural women to
become community leaders has led to scaling up of this collaborative
programme. Besides the Safer Cities Programme, a global women's safety
initiative, Jagori has partnered with other organizations to articulate
domestic workers' rights and gender sensitive governance. As the founder-
member of Sangat, a South Asian feminist network, it hosts its Secretariat in
New Delhi. Jagori was awarded the Roland Berger Human Dignity award in
2013 in recognition of its longstanding commitment to women's rights and
safety.
Janani is a Patna-based not for profit organization
providing family planning and comprehensive abortion
care services through social marketing and social
franchising programmes in Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya
Pradesh, and Uttar Pradesh. Janani works with the
government on family planning through a public private
partnership. It delivers services and products through
the Surya family planning clinics (many operated by
Janani), private clinics (serve as franchisees) and 700
private sector doctors who have been trained by Janani. It provides outreach
family planning services at government facilities and social marketing of
contraceptive products along with a strong outreach network of about 6,000
motivators that refers clients to clinics. Since 1996, Janani has provided family
planning products and services to over 22.59 million couples to protect them
from unwanted pregnancies. Janani operates a mobile IUCD van, runs a telehelpline (1800-200-3006) and conducts community health days. It also
provides training in family planning and comprehensive abortion care at its
government approved training centres
Website: www.janani.org
Address: 4th & 5th Floor,Dr. Jakir Hussain Institute,Old Bypass Road,
Kumharar, Patna-800020
Phone: +91 - 9910108832, 0612 - 2661150
Jan Sahas Development Society is a social and community based
organization, working with socially excluded communities to abolish slavery
and discrimination based on caste, class and gender. Founded in 2000, Jan
Sahas focuses specifically on eradication of manual scavenging and other
forms of bondage. It promotes land and agriculture development, skill
development for decent livelihood and social entrepreneurship. It works for
NGO
Website: www.jagori.org
Address: B-114, Shivalik, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi-110017
Phone: 011 - 2669 1219/ 20, 011 - 2669 2700, +91 - 8800 9966 40
the realisation of basic rights and
entitlements including education; food and
nutrition security. It facilitates legal aid for
Dalits, tribals and women and works for the
empowerment of marginalised communities
though capacity and organization building. It
works in 10 districts of Madhya Pradesh as
well as in the rural and urban areas of over 100
districts in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar
and Maharashtra. It is engaged in advocacy and collaborative initiatives to
change policies inimical to the socially disadvantaged communities.
Website www.jansahasindia.org
Address: 14, Mill Road, P.O. Balgarh, Dewas 455001
Email [email protected], [email protected]
Phone: 072 - 72 408090, +9 1 - 98264 23634
Jan Swasthya Sahyog is a voluntary, not for profit,
society founded by a group of health professionals
committed to developing a low cost and effective
health programme that provides both preventive and
curative services in the tribal and rural areas of
Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh. The organization has
developed an innovative three tier health system
comprising village health worker based community
health programme as tier one, the subcentres
manned by senior health workers as tier two and a referral centre at village
Ganiyari as tier three. The community programme is operational in 63 villages
in Bilaspur and Mungeli districts focusing on tribals (Gond and Baiga), SCs, and
other backward classes. In their project villages, child survival has improved
steadily over the years. The infant mortality rate has reduced significantly in
these areas as compared to the current rate for rural Chhattisgarh. The steep
fall in the neonatal mortality rate has been the result of improved care
provided to newborns at the community level and early identification and
treatment of illnesses; as well as prompt referral to a facility when required.
Website: www.jssbilaspur.org
Address:I-4, Parijay Colony, Nehru Nagar, Bilaspur-495001
Phone: +91 9589402995, +91-7752-270143
Karuna Trust was founded by Dr H Sudarshan in 1986
to respond to the widespread prevalence of leprosy in
the Yelandur Taluk of Karnataka. Today it reaches out
to over one million people through direct
management of 70 primary health centres (PHCs) in
Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Arunachal
Pradesh, Manipur, Maharashtra, Meghalaya and Rajasthan. It empowers
village health sanitation and nutrition committees (VHSNCs) to monitor and
manage the PHCs. It has eight mobile health units, an eye hospital and a first
referral unit with over 1100 dedicated healthcare professionals serving the
poor in remote areas. The Karuna Trust, which has won several awards for its
work, pioneered a successful public private partnership model to leverage the
government's public healthcare infrastructure by complementing it with a
socially committed, not for profit but professionally competent management
team.
Maitri is a Delhi-based non government
organisation working on social and health
inequities and public health concerns. It
reaches out through education, community
networking, and legal advocacy. Maitri's victim
support and victim-to-survivor programme addresses violence against
women, especially in the armed forces. It also promotes dignity and support
for abandoned elderly widows in Vrindavan. It works with migrant workers
and their families in urban environments, facilitating access to citizenship
rights, access to basic rights including healthcare to vulnerable migrant
populations like rickshaw pullers and the homeless, and providing
educational and skill enhancement opportunities for underserved children
and women. Maitri also runs an Integrated Counseling and Testing Centre
(ICTC) for HIV/AIDS.
Website: www.maitriindia.org
Address : J - 92, Anant Ram Diary Complex, R.K. Puram, Sector 13,
New Delhi-110066
Phone: +91 - 9810132908
NGO
Website: www.karunatrust.com
Address: #686, 16th main, 39th cross, 4th T block, Jayanagar,Bengaluru - 56004
Phone: 080-22447612
Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation (MVF),
is based in Hyderabad and believes that no child
works and every child attends full time formal
school as a matter of right. MVF is engaged in
abolition of child labour in all its forms and
mainstreaming them into formal schools for over
two decades now. As a rights based grassroots development organisation, the
Hyderabad-based MVF has been actively involved in protection of child rights
especially prevention of child labour and child marriages through
universalisation of education. Beginning work in three villages of Ranga
Reddy district in 1991, MVF has expanded to 10,000 villages in 158 mandals
of Andhra Pradesh and six other states.. Cumulatively over a period of 23
years, it has mainstreamed over one million out of school children into full
time formal day schools and ensured their retention till they completed class
10. Out of these, nearly 60,000 children have been mainstreamed through
the residential bridge course camps to formal schools, government social
welfare hostels and residential schools.
Website: www.mvfindia.in
Address : 201, Narayan Apartments, West Marredpally,
Secunderabad-500026
Phone : 040 - 27801320, 27700290, 27710150
Marie Stopes India (MS India) is a not for
profit organization and an affiliate of Marie
Stopes International (MSI). The primary aim
of the organization is to empower
individuals and families to make healthy
choices, through improved access to information and high quality affordable
family planning and reproductive health services. It believes in the motto“Children by Choice not Chance”. MS India provides contraception and safe
abortion services through its own clinics, clinical outreach teams, social
franchisees and by supporting government managed outreach services. It
works both with the public and private health systems and currently has
presence in Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Over the
last seven years, MS India has provided family planning and safe abortion
services to over 4,93,483 women and men. Currently MS India has 6 clinics,
118 social franchisee network members and 32 clinical outreach teams
reaching quality services to over 100,000 women and men annually
Website www.mariestopes.org.in
Address: 203, First Floor, Okhla Industrial Area Phase 3, New Delhi-110 020
Phone: 011 - 49840000
Website: www.mobility-india.org
Address: Rehabilitation Research & Training Centre,
1st & 1st 'A' Cross, 2nd Phase, J. P. Nagar, Bengaluru - 560078
Phone: 080 - 26492222 / 26597337/26491386
National Alliance for Maternal Health and Human Rights
(NAMHHR) was set up in 2010 by a group of civil society
organizations working in seven states to strengthen
maternal health as an issue of women's human rights,
The NAMHHR secretariat is based in Delhi and currently
has 37 members from 14 states as well as expert advisors
working with research, law, budgets and public health.
NAMHHR recognizes that maternal health and maternal
mortality in India is an issue of social inequity as it is faced by the most
marginal communities and women in vulnerable situations. NAMNNR
partners engage in research and conduct studies to promote rights based
strategies to build greater accountability for the innumerable preventable
maternal deaths in India.
NGO
Mobility India (MI) works towards
empowerment, inclusion and participation of
people with disabilities. MI promotes inclusive
development work by providing services related
to rehabilitation and assistive technology,
education, livelihood, and social services. Its rehabilitation, research and
training centre in Bengaluru is a model of disability friendliness and its centre
in Kolkata caters to the rehabilitation needs of the north-eastern region. It
conducts education and training programmes in areas of assistive technology,
including prosthetics, orthotics, wheelchairs, rehabilitation therapy, and
community based rehabilitation and accessibility. Its courses have affiliation
and recognitions from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka,
Rehabilitation Council of India, and the International Society for Prosthetics
and Orthotics. Over the past 12 years, over 317 students from 25 countries
have trained at MI to become qualified prosthetics and orthotics
technologists and rehab therapy assistants.
Website: www.namhhr.blogspot.in
Address: G-66, 2nd Floor, Saket, New Delhi-110017
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 011 - 26851101
National Foundation for India (NFI) was established in
1992 by eminent Indians to strengthen strategic
philanthropy in India and to rejuvenate voluntary
sector capacities to address problems of deep-seated
poverty and inequality. It believes in accelerating the
social and economic development of India by
supporting private voluntary initiatives. NFI supports
initiatives that are community based and driven, catalyses youth action and
active citizenship, and helps in the transmission of valuable knowledge
through media to enhance public understanding. It offers media and other
fellowships to encourage informed reportage and research on developmental
issues.
Website : www.nfi.org.in
Address: Core 4A, UGF, India Habitat Centre, Lodi Road, New Delhi-110 003
Phone : 011 - 24641864/65
North East Network (NEN) is a women's rights
organization working in the northeastern region of
India. It emerged as a result of the preparatory and
mobilization processes of the Fourth World
Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. NEN played
a key role in facilitating interaction and participation of
the women from the Northeast at this conference.
NEN works to engender social change in the region as
well as forging meaningful alliances with various organizations at the
regional, national and international levels. The offices of NEN are located in
Guwahati and Tezpur (Assam), Shillong, (Meghalaya) and Chizami (Nagaland).
The network addresses a range of women's rights issues in the region within
its strong feminist and human rights perspective. NEN has interventions in the
areas of governance, violence against women, peace and security issues
along with environmental and livelihood perspectives of the region. Its
strategies include alliance building, training and capacity building, national
and international advocacy, research and documentation.
Website: www.northeastnetwork.org
Address: J.N.Borooah Lane, Jorpukhuri,
Guwahati -781001
Phone no: 0361 - 2631582, +91 - 9435017824
Website: www.planindia.org
Address : E-12, Kailash Colony, New Delhi-110048
Phone : 011 - 46558484
Population Foundation of India (PFI) works to
improve people's lives through increased access to
quality family planning and reproductive health
services within a woman's empowerment and
human rights framework. It makes grants to NGOs
and supports social and technical research. Main
Kuch Bhi Kar Sakti Hoon is a TV serial produced by PFI
to promote women's empowerment and health seeking behaviour. PFI
provides technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
and state governments on urban health and community action for health. The
Foundation hosts the Secretariat of the Advisory Group on Community
Action, constituted by the MoHFW, to provide guidance on the community
action component of the National Health Mission. It works as an intermediary
organisation to scale up successful pilots on health. PFI is on the FP2020
Reference Group, the Asia Pacific Alliance for Sexual and Reproductive Health
and Rights, and the Reproductive Health Supply Coalition. It is the Secretariat
for the Advocating Reproductive Choices coalition, and the lead partner for
NGO
Plan India is a part of Plan International, one of the world's
largest community development organisations. Plan India is
working to improve the lives of marginalised children, their
families and communities by putting children at the centre of
community development. For last 35 years, Plan and its
partners have worked with communities throughout India to
break the cycle of poverty by helping children access their
rights to protection, basic education, proper healthcare, a
healthy environment, livelihood opportunities and
participation in decisions which affect their lives. It encourages children to
express their views and be actively involved in improving their community.
Plan India currently works in 14 states across 5,400 communities and has
touched the lives of millions of children.
Advance Family Planning in India.
Website: www.populationfoundation.in
Address: B-28 Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi -110016
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 011-43894100
Rangsutra is a craft company of thousands of
artisans from remote desert regions of
Rajasthan and eastern U.P. Over 3000
weavers, embroiderers and artisans have formed the company by pooling in
money and their creative, productive skills and are shareholders of Rangsutra.
Profits earned from sales go back to ensure a better life for the communities
and sustainable livelihoods for the artisans. Seventy per cent of Rangsutra's
workers are women. Working part time from their homes, depending on their
skills they earn between Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,000 a month. Skilled workers
working full time can earn up to Rs 15,000 a month. Headquarted in Delhi,
Rangsutra has worked closely with Fabindia and IKEA and its hand crafted
products including soft home furnishing are sold in IKEA stores in Europe.
Website: www.rangsutra.com
Address: 145/1, II Floor, Shahpurjat, New Delhi - 110 016
Phone: 011 - 2694145
SAHAJ was started in 1984 to make a
difference in the lives of marginalised people.
Located in Vadodara, Gujarat, its work is
based on a gender and rights framework and
it promotes social accountability through all
its programmes. SAHAJ engages with urban
poor communities in the city as well as with other NGOs and CBOs in Gujarat
through networks like the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan, Anna Suraksha Abhiyan,
PUCL and others. SAHAJ focuses on child rights, child-centred science
teaching in schools, adolescents health and development, masculinities,
women's health and, health for the urban poor.
Website: www.sahaj.org.in
Address: 1, Shri Hari Apartment, behind Express Hotel, Alkapuri,
Vadodara- 390007
Email: sahaj.sm@gmail com, [email protected]
Phone: 0265 - 2358307, 0265 - 2342539
Sahayog is a Lucknow-based not for profit organization
working to promote women's health and gender equality
using human rights frameworks and strengthening
partnership based advocacy. It engages with strategic issues
of maternal health and rights, gender equality, masculinities
and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Sahayog works at the community level in Uttar Pradesh with women and
adolescent girls in partnership with local NGOs across 12 districts. It builds
capacities and provides information to socially marginalized women and
youth to enhance their decision making and, facilitating their access to
services and realization of their entitlements. An active participant in various
campaigns and advocacy efforts in partnership with other organizations and
individuals, Sahayog has used research, documentation and evidence to play
a key role on various rights issues at the state, national and global levels.
Samagra Grameena Ashrama (SGA) was started in 1987 in Udupi district,
Karnataka, to empower primitive tribal groups. It engages with the
indigenous tribals living in Udupi, Dakshin Kannada and Kodagu districts in
Karnataka and Kasargodu district in Kerala. SGA is working to help these
communities live a life of dignity, self reliance and equity. It builds community
awareness and facilitates community based organizations lead the campaign
for their right to education, health and livelihoods. Over the past two
decades, SGA has helped organize the community to overcome caste
oppression and be able to influence government policies to protect their
rights.
Address : Adhivasi Jeevana Shikshana Kendra, Pernal Post,
Via Shirva, Udupi-574 116
Phone : 0820 - 2554031, 2553364
SEWA Rural is a voluntary organisation based in Jhagadia, Gujarat, and is
working on health and development issues in tribal areas of south Gujarat
since 1980. It has a 100-bed hospital which provides quality medical care
including eye care to 2500 surrounding villages in Bharuch district. Its
community health project provides safe motherhood and childcare at the
NGO
Website: www.sahayogindia.org
Address: A-240 Indira Nagar, Lucknow- 226016
Phone: 0522 - 2341319, 2310747, 2310860
doorsteps by empowering frontline health workers
through innovative mobile phone technology. It also
trains NGOs, government officials as well as staff and
students from academic institutions in India and
abroad. It promotes community based rehabilitation
of the blind and integrated education of blind
children. It provides one year free residential training
annually to 150 rural, poor and tribal youths in various vocational skills and
offers job placement through the Vivekananda Gramin Tekniki Kendra.
Programmes for economic empowerment of women are implemented
through the Sharada Mahila Vikas Society.
Website: www.sewarural.org
Address : Jhagadia, Bharuch- 393 110
[email protected]
Phone: + 91 9426120316 , 02645 220021 / 220868
Shikshit Rojgar Kendra Prabandhak Samiti (SRKPS)
focuses on social justice for the marginalized and
invisible. SRKPS works to link community based
organizations at village, block and district levels to the
local administration so that the community can realize
its rights. Headquartered in Jhunjhunu, SRKPS works in
all 33 districts of Rajasthan through its offices in Jaipur,
Churu, Kota and Jhalawar on issues of human rights,
education, and health. SRKPS is at the forefront of the campaign to stop sex
determination and sex selective abortion in Rajasthan. It is also working with
government officials at state, divisional, district and block level towards a
smoke-free state.
Website : www.srkps.org
Address : 1/129 Housing Board, Jhunjhunu -333001
Email : [email protected], [email protected]
[email protected]
Phone : 01592 - 234664/517567, +91 - 9414080218, +91 - 9530070400
Society for Assistance to Children in Difficult Situation (SATHI) works on child
protection, with a specific focus on children who come in contact with
railways. SATHI rescues children from railway platforms, and offers them
protection at shelters. It provides counselling and psychological support and
attempts to reunite the child with the family, provided
there is a caring and conducive environment for the
child's holistic growth. The organization started in
1992 in Raichur district of Karnataka and later moved
to Bengaluru. It gradually expanded and now has
presence in seven states across India. Over the past 23
years, SATHI has reunited more than 47000 children
with their families. SATHI also engages with
government children's homes across the country and works towards
rehabilitation of children who stay for long durations. It conducts month-long
camps for children who are victims of substance abuses, display deviant
behaviour or are habitual runaways from home.
Socio Economic Development Trust is a non government
organisation working in rural area of Parbhani district of
Marathwada region of Maharashtra. It works for the
social and economic development of 350 villages of 17
blocks of Marathwada and Vidharbha region. It first
started with Swapnabhoom, a home in Kerwadi for
destitute children and helped them regain their
confidence and rebuild their lives. SEDT has several
interventions like bal panchayats (children's council) and, child helpline for
the district. It has built 65 small science centres for schools with government
help in the state, 32 of these are for tribal schools. Besides education and
protection of child rights, SEDT works on women's empowerment and
entrepreneurship development, community health and hygiene, youth,
adolescents, agriculture and alternative livelihoods, tribal development and
natural resource management.
Website: www.sedtindia.org
Address: Swapnabhoomi, Kerwadi, Palam Taluka,
Parbhani-421 720
Phone: +91 - 9922914102, +91 - 9922914101
NGO
Website: www.sathi-india.org
Address:# 36, Ratna Forever, 4th Floor, 1st Cross,Model Colony,
Above New Bescom office, Yeshwanthpur, Bengaluru-56002
Phone: 080 - 23573088, +91 - 9845456767
South Orissa Voluntary Action (SOVA), a not for
profit voluntary organization has been working
for the disadvantaged communities in Koraput,
one of the poorest districts in Odisha, since 1993
with a focus on women and children. It runs
programmes on protection of child rights,
community health, quality education, governance, livelihood generation,
disaster risk reduction, skill development and food security. SOVA works to
address gender disparity and boost empowerment of women. It has pushed
to ensure tribal participation in the panchayati raj institutions in this
predominantly tribal district by enhancing their skill and capacity through a
range of training programmes. SOVA conducts field based research, develops
training material, and engages with other non government organizations and
government agencies to increase its community outreach.
Website: www.sovakoraput.org
Address: Rangbalikhumbha Road, Koraput - 764 020
Email :[email protected]
Phone : 06852-250590
Sulabh International is a Delhi-based not for profit
organization working to promote human rights,
environmental sanitation, non-conventional sources
of energy, waste management and social reforms
through education. Founded by Dr Bindeshwar Pathak
in 1974 in Bihar, Sulabh International launched a
massive campaign of converting dry latrines into lowcost pour flush toilets (Sulabh Shauchalayas). These
are a boon for users and have also helped to end
manual scavenging in several Indian states and other
countries where the Sulabh technology was adopted.
Sulabh community complexes provides toilets and
baths in busy and commercial areas, and reduce environmental pollution.
Sulabh has emerged as a catalyst of social change by converting lakhs of dry
toilets into Sulabh Shauchalayas and engaging liberated scavengers as its
caretakers. It also provides them vocational skill training. So far, Sulabh has
constructed 1.3 million toilets and liberated and rehabilitated 1,20,000
people, winning its founder numerous awards at the national and
international fora. The awards include Canticles of All Creatures presented by
Pope in 1992 and the Stockholm International Water Prize in 2009.
The Action Northeast Trust (ANT) is a voluntary
organization based in Bongaigaon, Assam. Since
its inception in 2000, the ANT has worked to
better lives of the poorest and disadvantaged
sections of the northeastern region of India. It
works directly for holistic development with
children, youth, women, farmers, mentally ill
patients and those affected by ethnic conflicts in over 200 villages in Chirang
district of Bodoland. Its strategies include forming women's collectives,
organizing village level children's and youth groups, running a science-onwheels programme for government school children, promoting crosscommunity interactions and nurturing safe spaces for non-violent conflict
resolution, promoting livelihoods which are safe and sustainable and also
running a community mental health programme. The ANT has also started a
weaving organisation called Aagor which gives work to over 140 women
weavers and has a Craft Trust in Bengaluru to promote the sale of high quality
art and crafts. It also runs a training centre for building capacities of other
NGOs in the Assam and other northeastern states.
Website: www.theant.org
Address: Rowmari, P.O Khagrabari, District Chirang Via Bongaigaon
BTAD-783380,
Phone:+91-9859978991, +91-3664 293802
The Hunger Project (THP) is a global strategic
organization working in 13 countries committed to
end hunger. In India, THP work across seven states
building and strengthening the leadership capacities
of elected women representatives in gram
panchayats so that they can take on greater roles in
the public domain based on the principles of women's
human rights and social justice. In the last 14 years, it
has reached out to about 1.3 million representatives
creating awareness and helping them engage in gender responsive
NGO
Website: www.sulabhinternational.org
Address: Sulabh Gram, Mahavir Enclave, Palam-Dabri Road,
New Delhi- 110045
Phone: 011 - 25031518/ 25031519/ 25057748
governance. THP is also working on health, water and sanitation, education,
food security and gender equality and equips the elected representatives
information to participate in the development activities as effective leaders.
Website: www.thpindia.org
Address: Shaheed Bhavan, 18/1, ArunaAsaf Ali Marg
Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi- 110067
Phone: 011 - 41688847-51
Unnati organisation for development education is a
voluntary non profit promoting social inclusion and
democratic governance to empower the marginalised to
participate in development and decision making
processes. Unnati is based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and
works for the rights of the Dalits, women and persons
with disabilities in partnership with people's collectives,
NGOs, elected representatives in local governance and the government. It
has developed an institutional mechanism for state wide social audit of
MGNREGA in Gujarat. This process has reformed delivery mechanisms of
food security, child care, maternal health and social security. Unnati also
facilitates community based practices and learning on disaster risk reduction
to promote a culture of safety at all levels. Besides focusing in the desert
districts of Rajasthan and Kutchch district of Gujarat, Unnati also play a wider
educational and advocacy role at the state and national level.
Website : www.unnati.org
Adress:G-1, 200 Azad Society, Ahmedabad- 380 015
Phone: 079 - 26746145, 26733296
URMUL (Uttari Rajasthan Cooperative Milk Union Ltd.)
Dairy, Bikaner, formed by Sanjoy Ghose in 1986
initiated the URMUL Rural Health, Research and
Development Trust. URMUL Trust represents a family
of organizations working towards social and economic
change in the lives of the people in the interior regions
of western Rajasthan, particularly the Thar Desert.
Most of the members of the Urmul Trust are natives of
the Thar. URMUL Trust has been doing significant work in western Rajasthan
in the areas of livelihood, primary education and health. Food, fodder and
water security are major concerns. Drought and disaster mitigation including
community preparedness awareness building about different social
development schemes by government including their right to information
and empowering panchayati raj institutions are also priority areas.
Organisations under the Trust includes URMUL Setu, URMUL Seemant,
URMUL Jyoti, URMUL Marusthali Bunkar Samitee, URMUL Khejadi, and
Vasundhara. These are autonomous member organisations of the URMUL
Trust family working in Bikaner, Jodhpur, Nagaur, Churu, Ganganagar and
Jaisalmer districts of north western Rajasthan.
Vatsalya, a non profit organization based in
Lucknow, works as a resource centre on health
and was founded by medical professionals in
1995 to counter the growing menace of sex
selection. It has now expanded its focus on
maternal, adolescent and child health by
strengthening and empowering communities on
health issues. It advocates for child rights,
specifically child survival and child protection,
addresses sex selective elimination of girls and legal identity of all children. It
works towards effective enforcement of the Pre Conception and Pre Natal
Diagnostic Technique Act. It is engaged with several initiatives on sexual and
reproductive health and rights, malnutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene
with focus on menstrual hygiene management and local self governance.
Website: vatsalya.org.in
Address: C-377, Church Rd, Sector 18, Indira Nagar,
Lucknow - 226016
Phone: 0522 - 235 1130
Vidya Sagar, formerly the Spastics Society of India, is a rights based
organization based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It creates awareness on issues
related to disability and advocates rights for persons with disabilities. Started
in 1985 by Poonam Natarajan, a parent of a person with profound disability,
NGO
Website: www.urmul.org
Address: Urmul Trust, Urmul Bhawan, Near Roadways Bus Stand,
Bikaner- 334 001
Phone: 0151 - 252 3093
Vidya Sagar works towards demystifying disabilities. It
runs several programmes to empower children and
adults with multiple disabilities, focusing on early
intervention, special education, inclusion, therapy,
communication and vision training, leisure activities,
counseling, mental health, livelihood training,
exploring and creating employment opportunities
and training of resource persons. Many persons with
disabilities have benefitted through its direct and community based
programmes. Its team in the disability legislation unit is run by persons with
disability and has impacted laws, policies and programmes at the state and
national level. Vidya Sagar received three national awards and the India NGO
award for outstanding services in the field of disability.
Website: www.vidyasagar.co.in
Address: 1, Ranjith Road, Kotturpuram, Chennai- 600085
[email protected]
Phone: 044 - 22353757 / 2235 4784
VIKSAT was established in 1977, as an activity of
the Nehru Foundation for Development and is
chaired by Dr. M.S. Swaminathan. As a
facilitating and resource support agency, it
promotes soil and water conservation activities,
recognition of women as farmers, and helping the producers gain control over
their produce. VIKSAT has modular training programmes particularly on
nursery raising and watershed development. Currently, VIKSAT works on
environment and forestry, land and water management, sustainable
livelihoods and, institution and capacity building. It has promoted several
people's institutions including tree growers' cooperative societies, watershed
committees, self help groups, and farmers’ clubs and farmers’ producer
organisations. VIKSAT is the regional resource agency for the National
Environment Awareness Campaign for Gujarat, Diu & Daman since 1987.
Headquartered in Ahmedabad, it reaches out through five field offices in the
districts of Aravalli, Sabarkantha, Mehsana Kachchh and Patan in Gujarat.
Website: www.viksat.org
Address :Thaltej Tekra, Ahmedabad - 380 054
Phone: 079-2685 6220
Vikram A Sarabhai Community Science Centre
(VASCSC) is a pioneering institution in science
education founded by Dr. Vikram Sarabhai in
1966 and based in Ahmedabad. Its mandate is
to stimulate interest, encourage and expose
the principles of science and scientific method in the community and also to
improve and innovate in various areas of science education. The Centre has
combined formal and non-formal techniques to develop innovative methods
resulting in a better understanding of the subjects. It has to its credit the first
interactive exhibition space, open science and mathematics laboratories,
science playground, and was the first to use computers in science education
and developing animated educational programmes. Its Science Express, a
specially designed 16-coach AC train, is the largest, longest and most visited
mobile science exhibition in the world. The Centre's programmes and
material reaches out to a large number of schools and institutions across
India.
Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra (VGKK), began
in 1981 to provide medical services to the tribal
communities and later diversified into education,
livelihoods, community development and eco-tourism
to promote integrated tribal development. Later, food
processing and organic farming were also added to
help the tribal people optimize and add value to nontimber forest produce collected. VGKK now has nearly
three decades of developmental experiences with the Soligas and other
tribes in Chamarajanagar and Mysore districts of Karnataka, tribes in
Arunachal Pradesh and, Andaman & Nicobar Islands It helped them form
community based organizations and women's self help groups to articulate
their rights.
Website: www.vgkk.org
Address: B R Hills, Chamarajanagar-571441
Phone: 08226-244025/18
NGO
Website: www.vascsc.org
Address: Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 009
Phone : 079 - 2630 2085, 2630 2914
Volunteer for Social Justice (VSJ),
founded in 1985, works for the
eradication of all forms of traditional and
modern slavery. VSJ is a pioneer in the field of elimination of bonded labour,
working primarily in the state of Punjab and also in Haryana, Himachal
Pradesh and Jammu. A social movement against bondage called Dalit Dasta
Virodhi Andolan is the result of three decades of work by VSJ in mobilising the
vulnerable sections to demand their rights. Its awareness programme
resulted in workers organizing themselves into trade unions. VSJ has
succeeded in getting directions from the Supreme Court in favour of
agriculture workers who died or were injured in the course of work and has
succeeded in using the writ jurisdiction of the High Courts to secure the
freedom and rights of bonded labourers. VSJ founder, Jai Singh, has testified
twice before the United Nations Committee on Contemporary forms of
Slavery at Geneva on the status of bonded labour in India and has been a
fellow at the Advocacy Institute, Washington D.C, USA.
Website: www.vsj-ddva.org
Address : Near Tubewell, No. 3 Ranjitgarh Gurudwara Road,
Phillaur-144410,
Phone: 018 - 26222432, 1800 1802432
Photograph by Charkha
Index
WRITERS
Dutta Pradeep
17
Elizabeth Jisha
18
Anand Annu
6
Ghangurde Anju
18
Akhileshwari R
6
Ghosh Rakhi
19
Arora Kiran
7
Gupta Umesh
19
Asif Gohar
8
Gour Shivnarayan
19
Bahl Taru
8
Halliday Adam
20
Bandhu Rajendra
8
Husain Narjis
20
Banerjee Ananda
8
Hussain Sazzad
21
Baruah Sanjiv
9
Indiwar Amritanj
21
Bavadam Lyla
9
Jain Rimjhim
21
Behar Upasna
10
Jain Sachin Kumar
22
Bhagat Rasheeda
10
Javed Anis
22
Bhattacharjee Swati
10
Jena Manipadma
23
Brara Sarita
10
Jha Nivedita
23
Chaturvedi Shefali
11
Jha Vibhash Kumar
24
Chaudhary Pranava Kumar
11
Joseph Reji
24
Choudhary Shubhranshu
12
Kashyap Samudra Gupta
25
Daitota Ishwar
12
Kejariwal Mukesh
25
Dasgupta KumKum
12
Khan Mohd. Anis ur Rahman
25
Datta P.T.Jyoti
13
Kujur Aloka
26
Dave Sanjay
13
Kumar Ashish
26
Deshpande Vivek
14
Kumar Raju
27
Dhar Aarti
14
Langir Sarada
27
Divya
15
Majumdar Swapna
27
Diwan Neeti
15
Mascarenhas Anuradha
28
Dogra Bharat
15
Manhotra Dinesh
28
Dogra Chander Suta
16
Mayaram Baba
29
Dubey Prashant Kumar
16
Mehra Preeti
29
Dutt Bahar
17
Meshack Anshu
30
Mohan Shriya
30
Sinha Shailendra
44
Morup Tashi
31
Srivastav Pradip Kumar
44
Pal Sudhir
31
Surin Pradeep
45
Pande Alka
32
Tandon Aditi
45
Pandey Shakti Dhar
32
Thomas Mini P
45
Pandit Ambika
32
Vasdev Kanchan
46
Pankaj Kumar
33
Verma Chetna
46
Padre Shree
33
Yousuf Shazia
47
Patil - Mohan Maruti Maskar
34
Zakir Mohammed
47
Phanjoubam Pradip
34
Pushkarna Vijaya
34
Rahman Azera Parveen
35
Rai Usha
35
Ramachandram Asha
36
Ramakant Bobby
36
Rashid Afsana
36
Rehman Teresa
37
Sainath P
37
Sarang Santosh
38
Savad Rahman PK
39
Sehgal Rashme
39
Shah Rajiv
39
Sharda Shailvee
39
Sharma Abha
40
Sharma Dilip Kumar
40
Sharma Dinesh C
41
Sharma Kalpana
41
Sharma Supriya
42
Shastri Ritambhara
42
Shukla Asha
43
Singh Ashok
43
Singh Bhasha
44
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Bedi Vijay
49
Das Sucheta
49
Datta Arko
49
Katragadda Harikrishna
50
Kaur Ruhani
50
Kolari Srikanth
51
Mallick Natisha
51
Olwe Sudharak
52
Panjiar Prashant
52
Priyadarshi Neeraj
53
Pushkarna Pramod
53
Rai Raghu
54
Roshan Nikhil
54
Sarvesh
55
Solanki Surender
55
NGOs
Aaranyak
57
ActionAid India
57
Aga Khan Rural Support
Marie Stopes India
70
Mobility India
71
58
National Alliance for Maternal
Health and Human Rights
71
Education and Development
58
National Foundation for India
72
Arunodhaya
59
North East Network
72
Astha Sansthan
59
Plan India
73
Bachpan Bachao Andolan
60
Population Foundation of India 73
Programme
Alwar Mewat Institute of
Centre for Environment
Education
60
Centre for Health Education,
Training and Nutrition
Awareness
61
Centre for Health and Social
Justice
61
Through Training and Action
62
CommonHealth
62
Communication for
63
Gramin Punarnirman Sansthan 64
Guild for Service
64
HelpAge India
65
Human Rights Law Network
65
India Water Portal
66
Jagori
66
Janani
67
Jan Sahas Development Society 67
Jan Swasthya Sahyog
68
Karuna Trust
69
Maitri
69
Mamidipudi
Venkatarangaiya Foundation
74
Sahaj
74
Sahayog
75
Samagra Grameena Ashrama
75
Sewa Rural
76
Shikshit Rojgar Kendra
Prabandhak Samiti
Childhood Enhancement
Development and Learning
Rangsutra
70
76
Society for Assistance to
Children in Difficult Situation
77
Socio Economic Development
Trust
77
South Orissa Voluntary Action
78
Sulabh International
78
The Action Northeast Trust
79
The Hunger Project
80
Unnati
80
Urmul
81
Vatsalya
81
Vidya Sagar
82
Viksat
82
Vikram A Sarabhai Community
Science Centre
83
Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana
Kendra
83
Volunteer for Social Justice
84
Photograph by Srikanth Kolari
About Us
Founded in 1994 by the visionary social activist, Sanjoy Ghose, Charkha Development
Communication Network is an innovative non-profit organization that works towards the social and
economic inclusion of rural marginalized communities through the creative use of media. Many of
the areas it works in are highly inaccessible and socially, economically and politically unstable. We
work closely with youth and currently provide on-field support in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and give
remote guidance for those in Bihar and Chhattisgarh. Earlier, Charkha worked in eight other states.
Rural marginalized communities often remain unheard and have little access to information that
they can use to overcome their social and economic disadvantages. Charkha is committed to
empower these communities by building their capacity to speak up at the local, state and national
levels and access available resources to obtain their rights and entitlements. They have also been
trained to write on development issues which are published in Charkha's trilingual newsletter.
These stories are syndicated by Charkha's feature service to regional and national newspapers and
magazines.
Rural communities, especially in remote and conflict areas, are extremely isolated. They have poor
media coverage hence local problems often go unnoticed by the government and stakeholders who
can make a difference. They also have poor access to information to help them obtain their rights.
Charkha aims to empower communities by building their capacity to write at the local, state and
national levels and to advocate for their rights. We provide them access to resources available to
obtain their entitlements and facilitate engagements with government officials and other
stakeholders who can help address local issues.
Mario Naronha
Head Operations
Charkha Development Communication Network

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