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Aditya Nigam is a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi and a co-initiator of Aman - The Autonomous Media Network (www.amanjunction.org). He has been writing on issues of globalisation, radical politics and political theory. Adrienne van Heteren is a co-founder of Press Now, an NGO in The Netherlands which supports the development of independent media. Over the past ten years she has worked on various independent media development projects in the Balkans (primarily Yugoslavia and Kosovo). At present she works with the Glasnost Defense Foundation in Moscow. Anjali Mody is a journalist with the The Hindu, New Delhi. She is especially interested in news stories on human rights related issues. She recieved a Sarai Independent Research Fellowship in 2001. Arvind Narain is a legal reseacher and activist with the Alternative Legal Forum, Bangalore. He has been active as a legal aid worker in the aftermath of the Gujarat violence in 2002, and is interested in the human rights of sexual minorities. He recieved a Sarai Independent Research Fellowship in 2002. Arun Mehta is a telecommunications engineer, Intenet and radio enthusiast and a human rights activist based in Delhi. He is a president of the Society for Telecommunications Empowerment and moderates several discussion lists on law, technology and society - India-gii@cpsr.org, netradio@ egroups.com, free-india@egroups.com, cyberlaw-india@ egroups.com. Arundhati Roy is a writer and activist. She has written extensively against nuclear weapons in South Asia, the displacement caused by big dams, corporate globalisation and global militarism. Her collections of essays include, “The Greater Common Good” and “The Algebra of Infinite Justice”. She won the Booker Prize for her first novel The God of Small Things in 1997. Arundhati Roy was recently awarded the Lannan Foundation Prize for Cultural Freedom (2003). Angomcha Bimol Akoijam has taught social, cultural and counselling psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, and is currently visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. He is an editorial consultant to the bulletin of the Manipur Research Forum, Delhi. Chitra Ahanthem is a weekly columnist with The Imphal Free Press, an English daily based in Imphal (Manipur). Besides weekly columns, she does features/articles/reports on HIV/AIDS related issues and has the strong conviction that media can be used as a forum to advocate about HIV/AIDS. She has worked with an NGO for 3 years running awareness programmes on HIV/AIDS in educational institutions and was also awarded a Media Fellowship (2002) to study "Advocacy of HIV/AIDS issues in/by the Media". Costas Constantinou is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Keele. His essays have been published in Alternatives, Global Society, Millennium and Postcolonial Studies. He is the author of On the Way to Diplomacy (1996). Crystal Orderson worked for several years as a television and radio journalist for the South African Broadcasting Corporation, SABC, covering socio-economic issues in South Africa and Zimbabwe. She is a gender and media activist and member of the women's collective, WomensMedia Watch, where she has trained women activists in media advocacy skills. She is currently a television producer for Young Africa Television (media NGO) in Johannesburg, South Africa and on secondment at Worldview International Foundation in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Danny Muller is an anti-war activist and member of “Voices in the Wilderness” - a network of dissidents in the USA and UK who have used non-violent civil disobedience to protest against the effect of sanctions on the people of Iraq, and are actively involved today in the global campaign against the plans for war against Iraq. Darryl D'Monte is the Chairperson for the Forum of Environmental Journalists of India and the President, International Federation of Environmental Journalists. He was formerly Resident Editor of The Times of India and Indian Express in Mumbai. He authored Temples or Tombs? Industry versus Environment: Three Controversies, Centre for Science and Environment, New Delhi, 1985. Darshan Desai has been covering Gujarat for the past 15 years, primarily with The Indian Express but currently as a Special Correspondent with Outlook. He has covered all the major calamities that have struck Gujarat during this period, including the recent communal violence, the 2001 earthquake, the 1994 plague in Surat, and the post-Ayodhya violence of 1992. Dipika Nath has been involved in activism and advocacy around lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender issues in Delhi for about three years and is currently a part of PRISM - a forum for advocacy on issues of the marginalisation of sexualities. Gurpal Singh is an independent filmmaker. He has been involved with 'Gujarat Shared Footage Group' in intensively documenting the aftermath of the violence in Gujarat since March 2002. Harsh Kapur is an indendent Internet activist, with a special interest in movements for human rights, democracy and peace in South Asia. He is the initiator and administrator of South Asian Citizens Web (http://www.mnet.fr/aiindex/). Katarina Zivanovic worked in radio, TV and print journalism in Belgrade from 1989-1995 for Radio B92, Studio B and the weekly Vreme. Since 1995 she has been working for REX as the coordinator, organiser, PR and producer and has implemented various projects such as “Cross-section” (reconnecting young artists from ex-YU countries), cybeRex (an open new media lab), CyberREX (Belgrade urban culture online http://www.rex.b92.net/cyberex). Kathleen Young teaches War and Human Rights, Religion, Gender, and Death and Dying at Western Washington University. She is the author of the section on Bosnia-Hercegovina and Kosovo for the Disappearing World's series. She is currently studying the Milosevich trial at The Hague. Manoranjan Selliah is an independent writer and human rights activist based in Sri Lanka. Marilina Winik works for Independent Media Centre Argentina in Buenos Aires. She studies sociology and is also an elementary school teacher (http://argentina.indymedia.org). Marni Cordell developed and maintains www.smallvoices.org, is a founder and former editor of the independent newspaper The Paper and thinks media is the problem, and the answer. Muzamil Jaleel is the Srinagar bureau chief of the Indian Express. He has written extensively on human rights issues related to Kashmir for The Indian Express and The Guardian (UK). He has been involved in training programmes for journalists on human rights issues. Paul Keller is currently coordinating Public Research programmes at the Waag Society in Amsterdam. He is an activist with the 'No Borders Network' (www.noborder.org, www.waag.org). Pradip Saha is a designer, filmmaker and photographer. Pradip Saha is managing editor, Down to Earth magazine. His interests include bottled water, industrial waste and urban ecology. Rajendra Yadav is an eminent Hindi writer and editor of Hans, a Hindi literary journal. Ranjit Hoskote is a poet, cultural theorist and independent curator of contemporary Asian art. His research interests include contemporary hybrid art-making practices, expressive culture in the post-colonial metropolis and the emergence of media culture in India during the 1990s. He has written and lectured extensively in these areas. His most recent curatorial project was the trans-Asian collaborative exhibition, "Under Construction" (Tokyo: Japan Foundation Forum and Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, December 2002-March 2003). Hoskote is also Assistant Editor to The Hindu. Ravi Agarwal is the Director of Toxics Link and Srishti, environmental NGOs working on issues of toxicity and wastes through information outreach, research and advocacy approaches in India, as well as internationally. He is also a photographer with a special interest in 'labour' and 'work' and has published and exhibited widely. Sanjay Bhangar is a student who is currently not studying and has been involved with setting up Indymedia Bombay. He is currently interning with PUKAR and spends his free time voraciously surfing the Internet and writing a little (http:// mumbai.indymedia.org). Sanjay Kak is an eminent documentary filmmaker. His films “This Land, My Land, England” (1993),” A House and A Home” (1993), and “One Weapon” (1997) have received awards as well as critical appreciation at film festivals like Paris, Fribourg, Hawaii and Dhaka. His documentary “In the Forest Hangs a Bridge” won the 1999 Margaret Mead Film Festival Documentary Film Award. He has recently made “Words on Water” - a chronicle of the Narmada Bachao Andolan. Subarno Chattarji is a Reader in the Department of English at the University of Delhi. He has a PhD from Oxford University on American poetry of the Vietnam War. Recent publication: “Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War” (Clarendon Press, 2001). Syed Iftikhar Gilani is New Delhi bureau chief of The Kashmir Times. Discussants Abir Bazaz is an independent filmmaker based in Delhi and Srinagar. Asha Varadarajan teaches literature and literary theory at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Abhay Kumar Dubey has worked as a journalist. He is currently a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Ravikant coordinates the Language Project at Sarai/CSDS. Vijay Kumar Nagaraj is a human rights activist working with Amnesty International in Delhi. Workshop Concept and Design Shuddhabrata Sengupta is a media practitioner, artist, filmmaker and writer with the Raqs Media Collective and one of the initiators of Sarai. He is currently working on a series of new media and digital culture projects at the Sarai Media Lab. Geert Lovink is a media theorist and Internet critic, currently based in Brisbane. He is co-founder of the community provider Digital City, the Nettime mailing lists, an Australian network for Internet research and culture. MIT press has recently published “Dark Fiber” a collection of his essays on critical Internet culture, and “Uncanny Networks” a collection of interviews by Lovink with media theorists and artists. Workshop Coordinator Rachel Magnusson studied English Literature and Political Studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada and Indian Politics as an exchange student at Leeds University (UK). She has also been involved in running a variety of alternative programmes and services for young people. Rachel is currently an intern at Sarai. |