Dr Amee Vora
(Principal)
Principal
Qualification: Ph.D in Virtual Brand Community
Experience:
Area of interest/specialization: Advertising, Marketing, Management
Ms. Kanchan Luthra
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor
BAFTNMP Co-ordinator
Prof. Kanchan is a seasoned faculty with a teaching and counselling experience of 20 years at various academic levels, right from schooling to MBA. Prof. Luthra’s career path began with the Doon School and Counselling at the Doon Youth Centre. As a Senior Manager and Psychological Coach at United world School of Business, she facilitated self-development, provided self-awareness, clarified thinking processes, and helped develop career paths with the help of psychometric tests. This psychological experience has always helped her easily established empathetic connection with her students, helping them enhance and unlock their potential/s.
As a Senior Faculty, Prof. Kanchan has been teaching across streams and courses in Saraf College and DGMC for more than a decade. Her knowledge and expertise has guided students across programs like MAFTNMP, MACJ, Short Term Professional Courses, PGDM, BAFTNMP and BMM/BAMMC. Subjects like Research Methodology, Advertising in Contemporary Society, Media Laws & Media Economics are some of the subjects taught by her, from the long list of her academic ensemble. She has been the Programme- In-Charge of BAFTNMP for the past 5years
As a faculty, her research discourse illustrates a good number of research papers and a book titled “Advertising in Contemporary Society” for the Final year BMM students.
Mr. Chandroday Ghosh
(Audio Engineer / Faculty)
Chandroday Ghosh is known to the Industry as Music Composer/Producer, Sound Designer and Sound Engineer for several of his Regional, Bollywood & Indie projects. A Professional Audio Engineer, having formal training in the field of Sound Engineering from FTII (Film and Television Institute of India, Pune) and SAE Institute.
More than 10 years of experience in (Academics) teaching Sound Engineering and Music production in multiple colleges across India. Several years he was associated as Head of the Audio Engineering and Music Production Department (HOD) at AAT / SAE media college (Mumbai). An AVID certified instructor for PROTOOLS and was empanelled as an Assistant Professor for Sound (2012-2014) at FTII (Film and Television Institute of India, Pune). Currently he is an Assistant Professor (Audio Engineer), at DGMC.
Mr. Shalu S. Balan
(Faculty)
With More than 10 years of experience in Animation & Broadcast Industry in India, He did his Bachelors in Computer Applications and Masters in Mass Media from Periyar University, Selam Tamil Nadu, along with an International Diploma in Animation and Multimedia from Arena Animation Academy Delhi.
He has trained students of institutes like ZEE learn , Arena Animation and Maya academy of advance cinimatics on various multimedia topics like graphics , 2d-3d animation , VFx and Editing.
He was awarded with "A GRADE CERTIFIED TRAINER" by APTECH Ltd.
Mr.Balan has been sharing his experience and taking academic lectures in various institution accross mumbai.
He worked on various tv animation series, most popular "MOTU PATLU" (for POGO) with Maya Entertainment Ltd studio,Mumbai.
Ms. Ponselvi S
(Faculty)
Assistant Professor
A passionate educator, writer and lawyer, Selvi holds a Master’s degree in Mass Communication, a Bachelor’s degree in Law (L.L.B), a Master’s degree in English Literature, and a Diploma in Gandhian Thought. She is an accredited certificate holder in Creative Writing and a progressive learner in Communication, Copywriting and Visual Storytelling.
She is a decorated B and C certificate holder in National Cadet Corps – Navy wing and had led her battalion as Cadet Captain. She takes pride as the recipient of the honorary APCM 23 Karat Gold medallion awarded to the Best Outgoing Student, during her Bachelor’s college period.
Literary Criticism being her forte, she enjoys the interdisciplinary criss-cross of Jurisprudence and Culture Studies, Poetry and Functional English, and Polity and Strategic Communication. Her years of experience as a public welfare professional, and her ethnographic encounters traversing miles of rural India’s landscapes accommodates great space for experiential learning in the classroom.
An advocate of lifelong prolific learning, Selvi believes fostering Imaginative Activism is the way forward in co-creating a democratic and dynamic knowledge society.
Ms. Kinjal Sheth Tandon
(Faculty)
Kinjal Sheth Tandon, a zealous media faculty. Who time and again strives for excellence, happened to qualify M- SET September -21. Which certainly adds feather to her cap but also reckons her claims in action. Her 4+ years of academic experience makes her inquisitively fanatic about grasping knowledge and being luxuriant. Her rustic experience of working for Dance India Dance -lil masters season 2 (Frames Production), Hats off production along with other Advertising agencies has led her to be driven towards the field of Psychology, understanding human mindset and their behavior.
As an outcome of her pursuance in ; Advertising, Clinical -Community Psychology and Public Relations has enabled her into being eclectic and zestful in her approach. It has also enabled her to be dexterous and apt in communications and fabricating connections. She, being pedantic about things across, persistently thrives best in her.
Mr. Viraj Bandekar
(Faculty)
Mr. Viraj Bandekar comes from a background of competitive examinations and has been teaching in various colleges. He cleared UGC NET examination in June 2019. He previously worked with Bhavans College, Andheri (autonomous) where he was the faculty member for Board of Studies and the faculty in charge of photography club.
Viraj has worked freelance with various OTT platforms as a transcript writer. He has also worked with
sportscrunch.in as a sports writer. Viraj is a sports enthusiast and is a basketball and football player himself. Viraj is currently the Assistant Professor at DGMC.
Mr. Sudeep Mehta
(Faculty)
Sudeep Mehta is the epitome of talent. He is a veteran with an extensive experience of 16 years in the industry as a filmmaker and photographer. His astonishing achievements include 150+ prestigious international awards in photography and 54+ in filmmaking, including World’s Most Popular Photograph by National Geographic Traveler in 2012, and was also elected at Academy Awards® qualifying festivals. His works have been exhibited and screened in over 21 countries, including, UNESCO and United Nations.
He represented Indian Cinema at Expo 2020 Dubai. His deep understanding of visual aesthetics is evident in his achievements. He has accomplished a Professional Graduation in Visual Arts from Harvard University and is an Adobe® Certified Professional Video Design Specialist and an Adobe® Creative Educator. He also holds Diplomas in photography from the University of Texas and Edinburgh Napier University. He has 5 years of academic experience. His rich reserve of talent has contributed immensely to classroom learning. He believes in taking risks and encourages students to think out of the box.
Mr. Srinivasrao Challapali
(Faculty)
Srinivasrao Challapalli is a Broadcast and New Media professional with over 20 years of industry experience. He has worked with national and regional news channels like NDTV, ETNow, IBN Lokmat, Sakshi TV etc. and with Hotstar as well. He has academic experience in the teaching of media and communication, along with marketing, to students at the undergraduate level.
Srinvas is a silent listener, and loves interpersonal interactions where he believes in sharing his industry experience with his students. He is a post graduate with specialisation in management, and is a certified ISO auditor. In his free time he loves to cook and work on documentary research.
Dr. Kiran Walia
(Faculty)
Dr Kiran Walia brings in around 22 years of experience in the field of Print Media, Creative Writing, and Communication Research. The beginning of her career was with Reporting, Content Creation for Print media such as newspaper and magazines, later the transformation was in to Teaching and Academic Administration at various repute media Institutes and private Universities. She has worked with some of the well-known Print Media Houses like Rajasthan Patrika, Dainik Bhaskar, Times of India, and Education World Magazine for 8 years.
She has 3 years of experience of working with HRD Ministry and Culture Ministry, Shastri Bhawan New Delhi. She has worked with SAARC Countries and E9 Countries, while associated with Education Consultants of India (EdCIL, Noida).
She is PhD, majoring with Media and Women subject and have experience of working with Women centric issues in print media during her tenure. She has been part of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi for 8 years. Presently, she is Assistant Professor of Multi Media and Mass Communication at DGMC.
