is an independent journalist engaged in reporting and analysing media issues, in particular on freedom of expression, media ethics, media ownership and working conditions of journalists. She also writes on women’s issues and has been tracking media representation of women in the mainstream media for several years.She worked in the Indian Express, Mumbai till 1996. She was editor of Soulkurry, an internet portal for women and editor of Humanscape magazine. As an AWA (Avabai Wadia Archives, Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Mumbai) fellow in 2010, she (along with Chayanika Shah and Meena Gopal) archived the campaign of the Forum Against Sex Pre-Selection and Sex Determination. Since 2010, she has been coordinator of the Free Speech Hub, an initiative of the well-known mediawatch site – www.thehoot.org - to track freedom of expression.  She is engaged in a cyber media literacy project for journalists, bloggers, students, academics and the lay internet user. Currently, she is consulting editor of The Hoot.