Jeyanthi R.

Jeyanthi R. is an Irula community researcher and coordinator at the People and Nature Collectives programme at Keystone Foundation, a nonprofit based in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu. She has been engaged with Radio Kotagiri 90.4 MHz and Nilgiri Seemai Suddhi, an Indigenous community newspaper. She has had relevant training in community media and barefoot journalism. Her mediums are writing and audio recording. Her work on understanding of community histories and Irula Traditional Cultural Expressions has been ongoing for nearly 6-8 years. Her familiarity with community media initiatives has helped her to formulate ideas on the need to communicate community histories within communities, the nuances of indigenous languages and also focus on intergenerational knowledge transfer, especially of techniques of culture.