Our Authors.
Mamta Chitnis Sen
Writer | Artist | Communications & Media Advocacy Professional | Founder, Red House Art Exchange | Author, Realpolitik: Exposing India's Political System
India
A journalist for over two decades, Mamta handles Media Advocacy for India’s leading child rights organization, CRY-Child Rights. She has worked with The Sunday Guardian, Mid-Day, Society magazine, and was Executive Editor of Dignity Dialogue magazine, India’s foremost magazine exclusively for senior citizens. She was the Consultant, Media Advocacy, Arts & Crafts and Exhibitions, with Bihar Industrial Area Development Authority (BIADA). In 2020, she set up the Red House Art Exchange in the Konkan region of Maharashtra, an art space dedicated to exploring practices related to art, culture, politics and diplomacy. She has studied painting and ceramics at Sir J J School of Art and has done her Masters in Resource Mobilization from S P Jain Institute of Management & Research. She has been a volunteer with World Citizen Artists — a forum of international artists, musicians and writers since 2013. Women and their rights have been an integral part of her work both in writing and in art. Mamta has hosted capacity training workshops for women from political parties as well as from the unorganized sector and has authored a paper on these experiences titled ‘Evolving Role of Women in Political Parties.’ Since 2012 Mamta has been documenting social crises through art and has exhibited her paintings in India and abroad. Her works are in private collections in countries such as South Africa, France, Morocco, Denmark, the UK, the Baltic countries and the US. Her art has been published in international art journals and anthologies such as Studio To Studio—The Artists’ Working Theory & Practice and Les Femmes Folles: The Women 2016.
She is the author of ‘Realpolitik: Exposing India’s Political System’ a non-fiction book highlighting and exploring the workings of political parties in India and the role of grassroots workers in the hierarchy of the Indian political system.