Translating experience into enunciation on conducting a policy ethnography in south asia: a researcher reflects on what it means to translate policy ethnography into action.

The idea was to critique a topdown approach to policy and its study, and to open up the black box to recognise a range of policy actors, including activists and policy advocates, media and international development agencies, besides governmental bodies. The weeks spent in Dhaka were rounded off with a trip to Munshigunj, where I interacted with a community radio station reaching the “bedenaaris”—women living in boats on the water bodies near Munshigunj. The experiences of spearheading conversations and initiatives for community radio, drawing on the normative ideals of freedom of expression and the right to communicate, public access to airwaves and the rights of the most marginalised to make their own media in South Asia, found the highest resonance when I wrote an open letter to the mainstream media in Delhi during the Justice for Rohith Vemula movement at the University of Hyderabad and beyond.