People
Editors: Chindu Sreedharan, Rohit Chopra
Design consultant: Sunil Krishnan
Technical consultant: Babu Raj
Rohit Chopra is Assistant Professor of Communication at Santa Clara University, USA. He has a PhD from the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University, Atlanta.
He is the author of Technology and Nationalism in India: Cultural Negotiations from Colonialism to Cyberspace (Cambria Press: Amherst, NY, 2008). Rohit has also published articles in South Asian Review, New Media and Society, First Monday, Cultural Studies, and the Economic and Political Weekly as well as book chapters in edited collections.
His research interests include the impact of global media and communication technologies; the history of media, communication, and technology in colonial and postcolonial India; and global identity politics.
Rohit writes in a journalistic capacity for Indian and American publications and runs the blog antihistory.
He worked in the Indian internet industry, at rediff.com, conceptualising web solutions for corporate clients. He has also worked as a copy editor in Sage India.
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Chindu Sreedharan is an accidental academic, a journalist who strayed into academia in the line of duty.
He has specialised in conflict journalism, covering the Kashmir conflict, the Kargil war, and the Maoist People’s War guerrilla movement in central India. He holds a PhD in war journalism, and lectures in news and feature writing at the Media School, Bournemouth University, England.
In his previous avatar, he was associate editor to the Mumbai-based rediff.com and its New York print sisters, India Abroad and India in New York.
He is interested in media effects and ethics, public opinion dynamics, online journalism and journalism education. Creative non-fiction is another special love.
He blogs at Indian in England.
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Sunil Krishnan is the Creative Director of PurplePatch, a Silicon Valley-based Marketing Communications firm.
A man of few words, with a particular affinity to snowy, mountainous places, he has spent 15 years in the design industry, along the way collecting a few international design awards – among those, the Magellan Award from the League of American Communication Professionals and the ‘Distinguished’ Award at the Society for Technical Communication Competition, Global.
His earlier hunting grounds include rediff.com, Contract Advertising, and Bates, Singapore.
He is the design consultant for Daira Centre for Art & Culture, a gallery specialising in contemporary Indian art.
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Babu Raj leads a technical team employing agile practices to build enterprise-ready applications.
A web 2.0 enthusiast, his personal motto is: code and design so that data reaches every possible human being.
When not thus engaged, he loves to write technical and creative pieces. He also engages in social service quite actively.
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