About us

citizenmatters.in is a Bangalore focused and citizen-oriented news publication.

We publish in-depth news, analysis, features, opinions, and information/event listings, covering city public affairs, community and culture in our city.

Citizen Matters is published by Oorvani Media, an independent local media firm founded by Bangaloreans Subramaniam Vincent and Meera K.

Our credo

We encourage citizens, professionals and journalists alike getting involved in city affairs, reporting, collaborating on, analysing, and proposing ideas and solutions. We hope this publication provides a forum for discourse on city topics. If you want to be part of our team, do get in touch.

Editing and Publishing

Subramaniam Vincent

Subbu has held product engineering, research and project leadership positions in the information technology industry in India and abroad. He is a co-founder and editor at India Together, India's national public affairs e-magazine.

Subbu is a co-founder of Citizen Matters. He believes that an original purpose of journalism is to provide information to citizens so that they may be free and self-governing.

Meera K

Meera was formerly yet another manager at an IT firm. She has worked at large corporates as well as startups, holding varied responsibilities in the product development space.

Meera has also been involved with the social and voluntary sector, supporting projects related to education and community health.

As the co-founder of Citizen Matters, Meera hopes that this forum for citizen level debate and expression makes a positive difference to the city.

Content

Supriya Khandekar is our full-time staff journalist and joined Citizen Matters in May 2008. She is a 2008 graduate of the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore.

Our associate copy editor is Purnima Coontoor, formerly with the Department of Journalism at Mt.Carmel's College, Bangalore.

Our freelance writers include:

Technology

Shajith Chacko is our in-house web developer and technology point-person. His engineering experience is in the telecom and mobile-VAS domains.

Marketing

Rashmi Vallabhajosyula, founder Altius Consulting, was the marketing consultant for Citizen Matters and helped plan and launch Citizen Matters.in in Bangalore.

If you would like to partner with us or explore co-branding opportunities with Citizen Matters, write to the marketing lead.

Graphics and Design

Angeline Pradhan at The Other Design Studio provided graphic design for the launch version of the Citizen Matters website.

Sahana Rammohan is our website desgin consultant.

Our publishing platform (Beta version) has been developed by Gokul Janga and Raghavan Kandala at TecDost Software.

Our technology is based on Ruby on Rails, Nginx and Sphinx Search Engine. Building this website would have been impossible without these fantastic products. We are extremely grateful to the Open Source Software community.