Tilak Mukherji, President of Charkha Development Communication Network, is no more
It is with great sadness, Charkha announces the demise of Tilak Mukherji, president of Charkha Development Communication Network, on October 31. He suffered a heart attack on October 24 and did not recover from it. He was just 66 and is survived by his wife, Supriya, and two sons, Rishabh and Nishad.
Tilak
joined Charkha’s board as a member in 2008 and in September 2018 took
over as President of Charkha. Energetic and result oriented, he steered
the organisation through some of its toughest times, including the death
of former CEO, Mario Naronha, and more recently its treasurer, Anil
Singh. His long and successful career in social research helped him give
a new vision to Charkha. In his spell as President, he watched over it
like a hawk — helped raise funds and reached out to friends in the
social sector for new insights and guidance. During the unprecedented
times of Covid-19 outbreak, he encouraged us to work and also pioneered
changes in restructuring the work of Charkha.
Known widely as the social research legend within the sector, Tilak started his career with ORG (now Neilsen), spent another five years with the Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB), and then partnered with Mode in 1986. Gradually, he became the co-founder & Chairman of Sigma Research, India and continued until 2012. He was also the chairman and senior partner with Median Consultants, Dubai.
Despite a hectic career, Tilak found time for his other passions–mathematics and wildlife photography.
May his soul rest in peace.
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Charkha works towards the social and economic inclusion of marginalized communities in remote and conflict areas through the creative use of media. Many of these areas are highly inaccessible and socially, economically and politically unstable.
Charkha conducts five day skill building workshops for youth with each participant undergoing a cycle of three workshops; the first two workshops aim to train participants to report and write on local issues while the third builds their capacity to become social advocates.
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