Our Team

Ekta Mittal is a graduate from Social Communication Media Course in Mumbai. She joined VOICES, a media advocacy group in Bangalore to bring out a publication on Community Media and stuck on there a little more than two years. She had the opportunity to get hands on experience with community radio, video and theatre, both in Bangalore and rural Karnataka. She is one of the founding members of Masrah , an eight year old theatre group. She is one of the founding members of Maraa and works here full time. Studying art, media and culture, meeting people, writing and photography are her keen interests.

Ram has background in IT and Media Studies. Learnt community media in VOICES, B’lore based advocacy group. Currently working on research and policy advocacy on white space, digitization, mobile telephony, spectrum allocation, community radio and internet access/infrastructure. Interested in media law and public policy making.

Monica James is a writer, media practitioner and researcher. She has a background in English literature, and she studied Social Communications Media at the Sophia Polytechnic in Mumbai. Her current work is centered around community radio, media policy, spectrum reform, creative practices in times of conflict and urban transformation.

Trupti Kanade is a researcher and media practitioner.
Some of her previous work includes: Features producer in CNBC-TV18, researcher and assistant with documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan on Jai Bhim Comrade and associate producer on the documentary The Rat Race
by Miriam Chandy Menacherry. She has studied literature and has a diploma in Social Communication Media
from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai. Some of her current work includes research on community radio and content development. She has a keen interest in documentary film-making and hopes to make her own film someday.