After a full academic year of alternate Saturdays spent at Shishuvan with the Radio Club kids from 5th to 10th grade, it’s finally time to hand back the reigns to the school staff.
This year, they’ve done plays that are a parody of saans-bahu serials, produced essays about having cats, reported on the launch of

Sonologue just conducted a three-day workshop with kids at Shishuvan school from 7th, 8th, and 9th grade on how to make radio stories and also edit them in open source software, Audacity.
The kids picked up the technology aspects astonishingly quickly. Before we could even assemble the recorders, the kids were off and doing field reports. The same happened with Audacity. I’ve had adults struggle to apply simple things like copy and paste but these kids were ready to play with gain and sound envelopes.
I’ll be back to teach them all …

August 28 weekend, Sonologue was in Pune to conduct a workshop on community radio programming with The Communication Hub. We’re teaching basic radio programming skills to 10 people from the Maharashtra Network of Positive People (MNP+).