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‘People should decide what development is’ says Shubhranshu Chaudhary

                                                                 Photo:Harshit Charles After almost two decades working as a reporter who was always in hurry to report ,meet the desk deadlines and sound victorious , he realized that media was not reporting the basic problems faced by the people but the conflict, to start his alternative media platform .Shubhranshu Chuadhrary edged   Edward Snowden to win the Google digital activism award 2013 talks to us about his journey, discusses the perils of media ownership in hands of elite and present day government’s decisions. He started his career in deshbandu hindi daily in Raipur and then BBC, he quit BBC in 2003, soon he left the path of conventional media to serve community. CGnet swara has broken shackles of aristocratic communication model. Please tell us about how this journey has been? The journey of CGnet Swara started while talking with the foot soldiers of Maoist movement who told me “democratize your media and