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Engaging storytelling through inter-connected Mediums

Illustrated cover of 'We Mean Business' featuring 20 women entrepreneurs and their stories.

WRITING AND RESEARCHING

Co-authored and published a graphic anthology titled WE Mean Business. This graphic anthology showcases impactful narratives of successful women entrepreneurs from non-metropolitan India. For the book, stories of women entrepreneurs were gathered through interviews and research conducted across the country, resulting in compelling women entrepreneurs stories that were crafted as graphic narratives.

Awards

We Mean Business, a  collection of graphic anthologies, won the Comic Graphic Novel of the Year at FICCI’s PubliCon 2023. Additionally, its Hindi translation, Mera Business Meri Kahaani, celebrated for its impactful narratives, won  Publishing Next’s  Printed Book of the Year 2023 (Indian Languages), highlighting inspiring women entrepreneurs' stories.

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Crafting Impact Stories

We all are connected through stories, and storytelling is a powerful tool to communicate. Creating impactful narratives, involves empathetic representation of people’s lived experiences, which connect us deeply. 


With an ear to the ground, a larger context is juxtaposed with the unique human stories. Such narratives inspire and nudge others to identify and collaborate.

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Stories that connect, captivate & create change

Campaigns serve as powerful tools to create awareness, influence behavior, mobilise resources, and drive social or policy change. Well-designed campaigns amplify development goals and enhance impact. The Herspective campaign was designed to refocus our view, allowing us to see the day-to-day aspects of our lives through a gender lens.  


Only when we start recognising the inequities, can we begin to challenge our own assumptions and biases, and start listening to her perspectives.

Multi-Media Storytelling

Writing

Case stories that create human connections  inspire action and behaviour change. By going beyond numbers, nuanced stories generate impactful narratives that highlight development through  real human experiences.

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Photography

Storytelling through photography creates impactful narratives that visually communicate the human stories, amplifying voices and driving engagement with stakeholders, donors and the wider public.

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Videography

From increasing visibility and impact to building emotional connections and mobilising support for development, videos grab engagement like no other medium does.

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Programme Documentation

To know where we're going we must know where we've been.  Based on interactions with stakeholders, programmes are documented from start to finish, to communicate, maintain, and transfer learnings to others. These also  serve as advocacy tools. 

About Framing TALES



Shrutika Mathur is a development sector professional 

whose practice as a communicator explores the relationship between 

the visual vocabulary and  written word.  Bridging across mediums, 

she creates compelling content. By framing tales in 

the relevant contexts, she strives 

 to craft narratives that not only inform, 

but also actively engage people in participation.

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