Lainy Malkani

Biography

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Lainy Malkani is Senior Lecturer on BA (Hons) Media Communications at London College of Communication (LCC), an author and podcast producer and presenter.
She draws on over 20 years of experience working for the BBC and independent media sector as a radio and television presenter, newsreader and producer to inform her teaching in the classroom.
She leads the Podcasting and Audio unit in the Media School at LCC and has used her professional skills and practice to develop immersive audio content.
She is a group member of the Sonic Screen Lab (SSL), which offers a creative space for experimentation and innovation within existing and new theoretical and practice-based methodologies.
As an author, Lainy she has written a collection of short stories based on historical archive at the British Library.
'Sugar, Sugar Bittersweet Tales of Indian Migrant Workers' reveals untold stories about the migration of over a million Indians in the mid 1800’s to the Caribbean, South Africa, Fiji, Mauritius and the UK.
The inspiration for the collection followed her critically-acclaimed BBC Radio 4 documentary series, called Sugar, Saris and Green Bananas which linked her own Indian ancestry to the sugar plantations in what was then British Guiana. She then presented a 3-part radio documentary series for the BBC World Service called The Compass: Sugar-Coated World, which explored the history of sugar and its global and environmental and impact.
She has travelled extensively as a media consultant mainly working in the field of election observation.