Our faculty members are preeminent in their fields and bring a particular subject-area expertise to their knowledge of the industry. They are award-winning reporters, producers, columnists, and editors. In addition to being experienced in the field, they are deeply committed to teaching, challenging and supporting students. They work closely with students, providing intensive mentoring and career guidance, as well.

Ranabir
Ranabir has has specialized in sports journalism, business reporting, and identity politics, working with top news media organisations including NDTV, ESPN STAR Sports and Network 18. He was a research assistant for curricula development for IIM, Kolkata and FTII, Pune and taught at IIMC. Ranabir's work has been published by the Routledge Sport in Global Society journal and has co-authored the CricketNext.com T20 Handbook. Ranabir holds a post-graduate diploma in journalism from the Asian College of Journalism and was a gold medallist in Media Management from the School of Convergence.

Julian West
Julian is a distinguished British journalist and author based in New Delhi. As former South & Central Asia correspondent for the UK Sunday Telegraph she has reported widely in the SAARC region, Afghanistan and Iran. Her first novel, Serpent in Paradise, was published in the UK & Commonwealth in 2007. She now corresponds for The Spectator while working on her next book.

Subhojit Paul
He's been behind the lens, as a professional, for over eight years now. His work has been published in a number of domestic and international publications-- namely National Geographic(SA), Impact, RSJ, Society, THE MAN, Andpersand and Savvy, among others. Even though he was ranked as one of the top ten travel photographers in India, by Nat Geo, in 2007 fashion, photojournalism and fine art photography have remained his top focus areas. All of these revolve around the creative-storytelling form of photography. As a freelancer, his clientele has included publishers, advertising agencies, corporates, fashion designers, industries and hotels. He has also been conducting photography workshops over the past two years. He know operates as the Chief Photographer in the 9.9 Media group.

Pervaiz Alam
Pervaiz is a broadcast journalist with fifteen years of experience in news & current affairs with the BBC. He was the London-based Executive Producer of numerous BBC World programmes, including India Business Report, HARDtalk India, Question Time India, Question Time Pakistan, HARDtalk Pakistan, Face to Face, Business Bites, Bollywood Bosses, Bollywood Inc, and his award-winning programme, ‘Rajiv Assassinated.’ In addition to editing a news portal for India-EU Film Initiative (www.iefilmi.com), Pervaiz is currently the India Head of the Radio Drama Team at the BBC World Service Trust

Margot Bigg
Margot Bigg had her first story published at the age of 15 and never turned back. She began her career as a university writing tutor before becoming an editor and later, a features writer focusing on music, travel and fine arts. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Outlook Traveller, Lonely Planet, The Oregonian and The Caravan. She also served as the Deputy Editor of Time Out Jaipur in 2008-09. Margot is currently authoring a guidebook set to be published at the end of the year. She holds an MA in European Politics from the University of Bath (UK) and Sciences Po Paris (France).

Dr. Eric D. Saranovitz
Eric has taught media and communication, as well as expository writing, as an Instructor at New York University and as an Assistant Professor at Denison University. Eric’s research interests and teaching have been focused on developments in media technologies, national and international media industries, globalization, national identity, public service broadcasting, and documentary production. He was awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship for his dissertation research. Eric earned his PhD. in Media Studies from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University and his MA in Communication and Journalism from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.

Graham Watts
Graham has been a journalist and trainer for more than two decades. He spent 21 years with the Financial Times in London, one of the finest editorial properties in the world. He has taught journalism in more than 20 countries, and has extensive experience in curriculum design and planning. He has also written chapters for journalism training manuals, including “Covering Globalization”, used by the Journalism School at the Columbia University for a training programme for working journalists.

BV Rao
B V Rao, or Venkat, has 25 years of experience in print and broadcast journalism. He has held several key positions in newspapers across the country, such as DNA, Times of India, and Indian Express. His portfolio includes magazines, weeklies, tabloids and broadsheets, and two major news channels. Venkat writes a weekly column on the Indian media and is a consulting editor with MoneyLife, a fortnightly magazine.

Rasheeda Bhagat
A journalist with three decades of experience in the print media, Rasheeda Bhagat is the associate editor of Hindu Business Line. She writes a weekly column on politics and edits the supplement, Life. She has traveled extensively and written on a variety of topics, including politics, foreign affairs, agriculture, rural economy, travel and tourism, stock markets and conflict-affected regions. In 2001, she was adjudged the best Indian journalist by the Press Institute of India.

Savyasaachi Jain
Saachi is a media trainer and practitioner with experience in broadcast and print journalism. He has produced hundreds of hours of current affairs and documentary programming for radio and television, and more than 50 international radio/TV documentary co-productions. Savya is an international trainer with Thomson Foundation, a UK-based media development organization. An alumnus of the prestigious IIT, Kanpur, he was awarded the Commonwealth Vision Award 2002 by the Royal Commonwealth Society, London.

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
Vanita is an independent media consultant and writer. In her 17-year career in print journalism, she havs worked with A&M; Intelligent Investor (now Outlook Money), India’s first personal finance magazine; and Businessworld. She has taught media at the Xavier Institute of Communication, Mumbai and teaches regularly at the Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad (MICA). Vanita is the author of The Indian Media Business, now in its third edition. She has an MBA in marketing from Mumbai University and selected for a fellowship to Cambridge University in 2000.

Mala Bhargava
Psychologist-turned-media professional, Mala is perhaps best known for her popular personal technology column, “That’s IT” in Businessworld magazine. She is an Editorial Director at Mindworks Global Media Services, a pioneer in the outsourcing of editorial services. She was also the founder editor of the country’s first home computing magazine, Computers@Home. Mala has extensive experience in training editorial teams. At Mindworks, she has formulated and implemented perhaps the most in-depth copydesk-training program in the country.

Other Faculty
  Jacob Cherian
  Vinay Kamat
  Pooja Kothari
  Ranbir Majumdar
  Eric Saranovitz
  Pramath Sinha