Event
Events, roundups, tips, tools, new work, announcements, workshops, this is a catch-all for all the news fit to share!
In August, Sonologue jumped into the fray of the first annual 24-Hour Radio Race, organized by the fine folks at KCRW's Independent Producer's Project. The concept was simple. Teams from more than 100 countries registered. On August 17, 10a.m. EST (10:30 p.m. IST...
I made my first trip to Calcutta in 2008 and during that visit, I tracked down Cinemawallah Salim, the celebrated bioscope man who still takes his movie machine in the streets of his neighborhood, charging young and old the fine fee of 1 Rupee to peer into the drum...
As Earthbeat shuts its doors at Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the Sonologue team also said goodbye to the Earthbeat India edition that we produced in English and Hindi for two years. For two years, the Sonologue-produced magazine style program ran in Hindi on the 1st...
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...
7 days in Hyderabad
Sonologue recently conducted a 7-day intensive radio content workshop at the Sarojini Naidu School of Communication at the University of Hyderabad. Over the course of the full week, master's degree students were taken through creating reports, features, PSA's, radio...
our most recent story was about how Mumbai, finance and bollywood capital of India, has raised its legal drinking age from 21 to 25. We spoke to the minister of housing who sits on the social justice ministry about it as well as a liquor store owner and a 21-year-old.
Shishuvan – radio workshops
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...
Reporter Chhavi Sachdev profiles a matchmaker in Mumbai who helps people with disabilities to make a love connection.
We’ve done a story about Prabha Panse before for European radio stations, we figured America should know about her too 🙂 It’s just about 5 minutes long.
resenting the second installment of the Biglosercast. It’s a short podcast, we’re getting the roundup from @b50 about #bigloser news from the past week, 50 tips from @sashg from healthylivingindia.org and finally the big loser of the week. Don’t forget, it’s fitness for charity.
Sonologue recently conducted a session for the Community Radio Forum at St. Pius College, in Mumbai on content and how to generate it. The session also taught how to conduct interviews, slant stories, craft the audio and how to think in audio.
my friend @b50 started the #bigloser hashtag on twitter as a way to keep accountable for his fitness and also donate to charity every time he lost weight. The movement has picked up momentum and Sonologue is happy to announce we’re doing their podcast. It’s a short ‘cast
Our story on Parsi speed dating made it into TSWI’s “it’s complicated” valentine’s special 🙂
The Parsis are an ancient Indian minority in danger of dying out – they’re not intermarrying enough. So I spent an evening of Parsis-only speed dating, to see if some singles could make a Zoroastrian love connection