Kamala hails from Jammapudur, a village that lies at the foothills of the lush green Jawadhu Hills of Tamil Nadu. It is an interior village primarily inhabited by farmer families. Young and ambitious at 50, Kamala routinely goes on the field as part of her association with an NGO, where she works closely with the…
Residing in Feroke City, Calicut District, is Fathima, a twenty-seven-year-old aspiring journalist. She is a student at Media One Academy, Kozhikode, Kerala, an institute dedicated to imparting theoretical ability and industrial readiness to journalism students. Among the many activities that the Academy hosts for the students was a media and information literacy workshop that FactShala…
Sultan Ahmad is a journalist living in Delhi. For over eight years now he’s been working with Gram Vaani, a social tech company incubated out of IIT Delhi, that uses technology to create participatory media platforms that are accessible and adaptable. Dedicated towards community media, Sultan has traveled across the country, conducting grassroots training to…
“one of the most common apprehensions among the people was that if you give the dose to children between the ages of 15 and 18, they will not be able to have kids in the future” Lajjawati, a social impact worker, resides in Uttar Pradesh’s city of love – Agra. She works at The Agra…
Prashant Kumar is a 24-year-old resident of Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh who participated in FactShala in 2020 and has helped spread the tools and techniques he learned about to at least 500 other people. He has achieved this in collaboration with FactShala trainer Gaurav Sharma, a Meerutbased fact-checker, researcher, and journalist. Show More Prashant first attended…
In more than six districts of North Bengal, WhatsApp groups have been formed comprising of students, teachers, workers, house makers, men, and women who sift through and debunk the fake news and misinformation spreading in their networks to protect the public from its harmful effects. Show More Tuhin Mandal, a former school teacher and activist…
Karishma Choudhary a 23-year-old postgraduate Geology student was an intern in Radio Kamalvaani 90.4 FM, a community radio station in Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan. During her internship, a radio program on media literacy on misinformation and fake news was aired for their local audiences, aiming to empower them with approaches and skills to consume information critically, especially…
UzmaAlam, a social worker based in Kolkata, used to share every message that she received on her WhatsApp. As someone working in an organization dedicated to social good, she believed it was her duty to spread information that appeared convincing or beneficial to as many people as possible. It never occurred to her that such…
Neha Tiwari, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mass Communication, Karim City College of Jamshedpur, has always been troubled by kidnappings, communal incidents, mob lynching and the killing of the women as part of witch-hunting in the Jharkhand state Neha has come to believe that one of the major drivers of these incidents in…
Jaskandih is a village located in PurbiSinghbhum district of Jharkhand, situated five km away from sub-district headquarters Golmuri-cum-Jugsalai and 16 km away from district headquarter Jamshedpur. The region is dominated by a tribal population. A short voice note popped up on the mobile phones of several residents of the village and quickly went viral across…