“I was just at the receiving end as a student journalist. As an intern, I'm at the giving end.”

Meet the Intern is a series of profiles on our incredible interns at the Media-Makers Fellowship - students who help guide and mentor other student creators through the fellowship.

Sitting down to interview Parnika is like attending a Masterclass on what it means to be an intern at the Media Makers Fellowship. Replete with insights and words of wisdom, our

conversation had me making copious notes.

She starts by telling me what it means to be an intern at MMF.

“Last year I was a student journalist at the very same program and my intern Meenakshi did so much stuff all the time that I used to think- how does she do it? And now I’m an intern with her and it’s sort of like we have to do so many things at once, but it’s very fulfilling at the same time.”

When I ask her how being an intern is different from being a participant at the Fellowship she says, “I was just at the receiving end as a student journalist, as an intern I'm at the giving end.”

As she recounts the diverse media she’s seen students creating at MMF, she makes an astute observation about media and how it impacts us - “The media we consume, the news we consume dictates the quality of our thoughts, the kind of lives we lead. We need to be wary about the content we are consuming- the books we read, the movies we watch.”

That right there is a shining example of the “golden phrase” that I collected in huge quantities through the course of my conversation with Parnika.

Written by Asmita Prabhakar