About us

Citizen Matters is a Bangalore focused, citizen-oriented newsmagazine, covering city public affairs, community and culture. Citizen Matters encourages everyone to get involved in city affairs.

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

Vaishnavi Vittal is our staff journalist. Our publishing lead and copy editor is Konthoujam Sarda. They are both graduates from the Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore.

Our complete list of freelance writers can be found here

Operations

Ramachandran P is our Sales executive. To advertise on Citizen Matters, please call 9740918300 for details.

Raghavendra is in charge of operations and print distribution. If you would like to partner with us or explore co-branding opportunities with Citizen Matters, write to the marketing lead.

Design and Technology

Angeline and Upesh Pradhan at The Other Design Studio provided graphic design for the launch version of the Citizen Matters website. Sahana Rammohan also provided web design consultancy. The print design template was also provided by The Other Design Studio.

Our publishing platform (Beta version) has been developed by Gokul Janga and Raghavan Kandala at TecDost Software (now part of Mapunity). Shajith Chacko worked on subsequent versions.

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.