Sukumar Muralidharan
teaches at the school of journalism, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat. Prior to this, he worked for many years in the print media, heading editorial desks and news bureaus. Since 2004, he has worked as a freelance journalist, trainer and press freedom campaigner. He began his professional life as a science and technology reporter, before moving on to the themes of economics and current political affairs. He has published research papers on the media industry and contemporary politics and worked in conflict analysis, both domestic and global. As a fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, he worked on the Indian development experience and on modes of theorizing on technology. He is also the author of Freedom, Civility, Commerce: Contemporary Media and the Public (2018).
