Feature Service -Eng, Hindi and Urdu

Charkha, in the course of its efforts to become a medium of communication for voices from the grassroots runs a trilingual feature service in English, Hindi and Urdu. The modus operandi of this feature service is unique. Charkha receives articles from rural reporters, writers and development journalists in English, Hindi and Urdu and place them in regional and national print media. Here our motto is to enable the people of rural India to speak of their own issues, challenges, achievements and problems. But more importantly, we encourage positive stories of development that somehow get lost amidst the media coverage on politics, acts of violence, terrorism and petty crime, among others. Over the years, the Hindi and English feature service has grown phenomenally with a subscription base of more than 100 publications apart from several websites and portals. Inspired and encouraged by this success, Charkha launched its Urdu feature service on October 2, 2005. This is the first Urdu feature service of its kind in India which provides content on developmental issues to online and print media publications in Urdu. The response of our Urdu service has been overwhelming. We continue to get huge support and very enthusiastic response from mainstream media and are now looking forward to extend our reach to electronic media, internet and other new media sources for providing platform to voices from the grassroots. We welcome your suggestions, feedback, articles and inputs. You can contact us at charkha@bol.net.in.