Kanchan K. Malik

• PhD Communication
• Professor at University of Hyderabad

Broadcasting in our country continues to be governed by two archaic legislations and regulated through an assortment of laws that have been scripted as expedient measures to tackle high priority short-term demands. There exists no comprehensive policy that takes into account the contradictory pulls surrounding broadcasting in India.

Community broadcasting is a nascent and unique sector now operating together with the commercial and national players in India and is identified by three significant characteristics—community participation, non-profit making, and community ownership and management. The overarching philosophy of community radio, acknowledged worldwide, is that it is...

"Community radio in South Asia: a roadmap for democracy" is the introduction to the book edited by Kanchan K. Malik and Vinod Pavarala (Routledge, 2020). It gives an overview of community radio in the region and locates it within certain key trends and issues that characterize media development in the various countries.

Researching Community Radio: Reminiscences of a Conceptual and Empirical Journey In Communicator Volume LII, Number 1, January-March 2017 Pages 21-38, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi ISSN 0588-8093: This paper reflects on the first ever doctoral work on ‘Community Radio in India’ carried out by the author at a time when the...

This paper argues that religion influences the ways that people think and speak about corruption, typically leading to condemnation. However, it is also argued that, in a systemically corrupt country, such condemnation is unlikely to influence actual corrupt behaviour. Based on fieldwork in India, the paper finds that existing anti-corruption polic...

This study contributes the first experiment (n = 1,342) comparing audience reception of solidarity reporting to monitorial reporting. Solidarity reporting prioritizes insights of people impacted, while monitorial reporting focuses on officials. We find that covering abortion access protests using a solidarity approach improved news story credibilit...

Local voices carry tremendous weight during natural disasters, yet the possibilities for employing participatory communicative practices for disaster management in India have not been fully explored. Effective community-centred disaster communication garners participation in disaster management processes that reduce vulnerabilities. This paper exam...

In this chapter we analyse the role of community radio as an effective tool for grassroots communication and decentralized information access during the Covid-19 pandemic, through the lens of UNESCO’s IFAP programme. Through an analysis of the conversations conducted by us online and other data about the work done by community radio (CR) stations d...

Based on the in-depth case studies of two community newspapers—Khabar Lahariya and Namaskar from India, the chapter contends that such grassroots media initiatives seek to address the gender gap in the access to communication spaces and enable a media ecology that is gender-sensitive. The women journalists foreground gender issues in these communit...

Community radio (CR) in India has played a key role in allowing social groups to negotiate diverse identities and articulate concerns from marginalized perspectives. At present, the country has around 245 operational CR stations, over 100 of which are run by NGOs and local communities. Many CR initiatives in India continue to be led by women, while...

This manual is an outcome of an International Programme for Development of Communication (IPDC) project aimed at enhancing women’s participation and reducing gender inequalities in all aspects of the operations of community radio stations in India. The overarching objective of the manual is to foster and reinforce best practices, policies, and prog...

This commentary is based on my talk at a roundtable discussion hosted by the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) in August 2021. I write this to make a pitch for strengthening media education in regional language journalism in India. Although there has been substantial growth in demand, operations, infrastructure, and technology in region...

The two-decade-old community radio (CR) movement in India, right from its inception, has had to contend with the political question.1 Advocates and activists campaigning for the opening up of airwaves in India for third-sector broadcasting, independent of the state and the market, were cautious to eschew an argument based on communication rights, s...

In Chapter 11, Vinod Pavarala and Kanchan K. Malik examine the role played by community radio in social change through the lens of participatory communication and locate it within the context of the globalization of media. The authors posit that at present, even though there are multiple media outlets, much of the grammar of creating content feeds...

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The author delves into the conceptual insights that assess critically the dynamics of gender and participatory development, as well as the complex process of women’s empowerment in South Asia. The chapter presents an overview of the engagement of women with community radio in South Asia. The chapter looks at the capacity building efforts being carr...

This book explores the state of community radio, a significant independent media movement that began about two decades ago, in different parts of South Asia. The volume outlines the socioeconomic and historical contexts for understanding the evolution and functioning of community radio in an increasingly globalised media environment. It provides a...

Based on an in-depth case study of “Khabar Lahariya” – a community newspaper located in Central India, this research paper analyses its decade-and-a-half journey and examines the metamorphosis it has undergone over the years. The paper borrows from Tanja Bosch’s (2010 Bosch, T., (2010). Theorizing citizens’ media: A rhizomatic approach. In D. K. C....

Based on an in-depth case study of ‘Khabar Lahariya’ – a community newspaper located in Central India, this research paper analyses its decade and a half journey and examines the metamorphosis it has undergone over the years. The paper borrows from Tanja Bosch’s (2010) synthesis of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's notion of ‘rhizomes’ to analyse...

This paper identifies the significant ethical challenges expressed by journalists and editors working in media companies in the city of Hyderabad, India. Keeping those dilemmas and challenges in mind, the authors propose economist and Noble laureate Amartya Sen’s capabilities approach as a theoretical outline for the development of future journalis...

This toolkit is for continuous improvement of community radio stations. The quality of performance of a community radio station, for the purpose of this exercise, is being seen as something embedded in the core principles of community radio. Version 2.0 of CR-CIT also includes a substantial new section on the suggested Peer Review process.

Cumbersome licensing and arbitrary spectrum allocation add to self-censorship of community radio in India, says KANCHAN K MALIK Link: http://asu.thehoot.org/free-speech/media-freedom/snuffing-out-voices-from-the-margins-8689 (Kanchan Malik is with the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad. This article is based on a presentation ma...

Community Radio (CR) is a participatory tool for communication and a platform where ordinary and disempowered people, through the engagement in daily media activity, assert their right to active citizenship. Gender is a significant dimension in CR initiatives that are seeking to deploy communication technologies for social change in general and emp...

Religion coexists with what may be described as a liberalised, cosmopolitan and global outlook among Indians and remains an indispensable part of the cultural ethos and social fabric of Indian society. However, interpretations of both religion and corruption are extremely diverse. Notwithstanding the existence of deep-seated faith with strong moral...