Kahi Ankahi Baatein: Aisa Kyun, Aisa Kyun Nahi

Community radio is effective because it uses the language of the community, addresses the specific issues of a community. It amplifies voices from within the community, which is why it is heard and effective. Farheen, presenter on Radio Mewat, featured on KAB

In 2020, CREA partnered with the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre of Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi to apply a gendered lens and create feminist content for the campus community radio program, “Radio Jamia”. The program is titled ‘Kahi Ankahi Baatein: Aisa Kyun, Aisa Kyun Nahin’ (Things Said and Unsaid: This Way or That).

Radio Jamia reaches communities within the university and the outlying areas of Jamia Nagar. The CREA collaboration produced new and informative content that informed audiences on gender, gender-based violence, patriarchy and other feminist concepts. This includes 15-minute episodes that air weekly every Tuesday at 3 pm IST on Radio Jamia’s community radio in Hindi.

CREA and Radio Jamia have worked with university faculty to produce and air over 36 episodes on feminism, women with disabilities’ participation in political spaces, accessibility in campus spaces, gender-based violence, body shaming and bodily autonomy, gender and language, and gender and sports, among others. CREA works with a myriad of experts and activists in the field of gender who often attend these programs as hosts and speakers.

To catch a broadcast tune into Radio Jamia at 90.4 FM every Tuesday at 3 pm IST.

You can download the Radio Jamia app here (currently only available for Android devices). Episodes can also be heard on the Youtube channel.