Prof. Mochish holds a PhD and MPhil in Media and Cultural Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, as well as a Master’s degree in Communication from the University of Hyderabad. His doctoral research critically examines the role of Malayalam newspapers in land struggles in Kerala from 1930 to 2008, offering a distinctive historical perspective on media and public action in the region.

His academic interests include Political Communication, Press Freedom, Media History, Social Justice Journalism, Media and Development, Alternative Media, and the Intersections of Culture, Digital Technology, and Media.

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

• K S, Mochish & Ray. K. 2025. Digital Media and Social Justice in India: The Revival of Local Journalism via Digital Platforms. Social Scientist, January – February, 2025 https://socialscientistindia.org/authortags/mochish-k-s-and-kunal-ray/


• Ray, K & Mochish. KS. About Critique: Indian Media & Documentary Cinema. Book: Resistance in Aesthetics and Practice in Indian Documentary Film: Aesthesis, Culture and Practice, Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-resistance-in-indian-documentary-film-hb.html


• K, S. Mochish and Sanviti Iyer. 2023. Pandemic, politics, and the safety of journalists: downward spiral of press freedom in India, Review of Communication, 02 Jul 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2023.2216264


• K S, Mochish (2022). Democratise Radio News in India.Economic and Political Weekly- Engage. Vol 57 Issue No 29.  16 July. https://www.epw.in/engage/article/democratise-radio-news-india


• Ray, K & Mochish. KS. (2022). New-generation of Malayalam Cinema: A decade of promise. Economic and Political Weekly. Vol 57 Issue No 24.  https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/24/perspectives/new-generation-malayalam-cinema.html


• K S, Mochish. (2022). Journalism and Public Health Crises: Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic in India.  Social Scientist, Volume 50, Numbers 1-2, Jan-Feb 2022, https://socialscientistindia.org/volumes-and-issues/2838/  


• K S, Mochish & Kunal, Ray. (2020). Media, Gender and the Neo-liberal Indian State, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 55, Issue No. 8,8. https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/8/book-reviews/media-gender-and-neo-liberal-indian-state.html


• K S, Mochish. (2014). Public Action and the Print Media in Kerala: A Historical Analysis, 1923-1965, Social Scientist, Vol 42/Nos.1-2/January – February 2014.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/24372998?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents 


• K S, Mochish. (2012). Caste Struggles and the Role of Print Media: A Historical analysis of the Temple Entry Movement in Kerala. (Chapter in an edited book) Media and Society. ISBN-978-93-83183-12-8

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

• Deteriorating Press Freedom in India. Mathrubhumi Yearbook Plus 2023. https://yearbook.mathrubhumi.com/en/loginpage/


• Why declining Press Freedom is nobody’s concern in India? Outlook – 28 June 2022. https://www.outlookindia.com/national/why-declining-press-freedom-is-nobody-s-concern-in-india--news-205243


• How Safari TV is experimenting with Television Content in Kerala.  Outlook- 22 May 2022   https://www.outlookindia.com/art-entertainment/how-safari-tv-is-experimenting-with-television-content-in-kerala-news-197913


• Ukraine War: Fake news, sensationalism, and everything that's wrong with media's conflict coverage, News9live- 2 May 2022. https://www.news9live.com/india/ukraine-war-fake-news-sensationalism-and-everything-thats-wrong-with-medias-conflict-coverage-167905


• How Covid-19 is stirring up Kerala’s obsession with political satire-Social media is the new home of creative political campaigns of all kinds, Open Magazine, 14 May, 2020. https://openthemagazine.com/columns/covid-19-stirring-keralas-obsession-political-satire/


• The ‘Secret’ of Kerala Experience- Why it is crucial to know the history of public action in Kerala to know its COVID-19 success story, Open Magazine, 05 May, 2020 https://openthemagazine.com/columns/secret-kerala-experience


• Nipah virus, Kerala floods, and now COVID-19: Malayalam media's coverage of crises offers a model worth replicating for constructive journalism, Firstpost,April 25, 2020.https://www.firstpost.com/health/nipah-virus-kerala-floods-and-now-covid-19-malayalam-medias-coverage-of-crises-offers-a-model-worth-replicating-for-constructive-journalism-8299751.html


• The need for a proactive media during a Public Health Crisis, Newsclick, 11 May, 2002  https://www.newsclick.in/The-need-proactive-media-during-public-health-crisis

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• K,S. Mochish. 2025. Toward Inclusive Radio Journalism in India: A Case for Democratizing News. International Conference on “Reimagining Communication in the 21st Century: Sociological, Political, and Economic Perspectives” organized by St. Philomena’s College (Autonomous), Mysore, India, between March 20-21, 2025


• K,S. Mochish and Sanviti Iyer. 2023. Attacks on Journalists and media freedom during the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Indian Case, Pandemic Communication and Populism: PANCOPOP Symposium 2023, Loughborough University, UK, 12-13 June 2013


• Iyer, Sanviti and Mochish KS. 2022. State, Politics and the Safety of Journalists in the Developing Economies: Case of pandemic reporting in India. World Press Freedom Day Global Conference, Organised by UNESCO & Government of Uruguay, 2-5 May 2022. Punta Del Este, Uruguay.


• K, S. Mochish. 2021. Memes, Politics and Social Criticism in the Global South: Culture of Political Satire in contemporary Kerala, India. CARGC Fellows Early Career Symposium, CARGC, Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania.


• K, S. Mochish. 2021. Social Criticism through Memes in the Global South: Culture of Political Satire in contemporary Kerala, India.  De-Westernizing media and cultural studies: New discourse practices in the digital world Moscow Readings conference.


• K, S. Mochish. 2020. CUDES 2020, 11th Current Debates in Social Sciences, September 29-30, 2020, Sakarya University, Turkey


• K, S. Mochish. 2019. Media, caste and land rights movements in India: A case of Malayalam language newspapers, 2003- 2008. IAMCR-2019 Madrid, Spain


• K, S. Mochish. 2018.  Media and Conflict in Developing Societies:  A Case of Agrarian Conflicts and Print Media in Kerala, India. IPRA- 2018, Ahmedabad


• K, S. Mochish. 2018.  Gender and Ethnicity in the Global South: An Analysis of the tribal movement in Kerala, India. Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA). Denver, USA


• K, S. Mochish. 2017. Historical Relevance of the Vernacular Press in the Global South: Tracing the History of Malayalam Language Press through its Role in the public Action in Kerala, India -1923-2013. IAMCR- 2017, Cartagena, Colombia


• K, S. Mochish. 2016. Gender and Media in India: An Analysis of Tribal Land Struggle in Kerala, India, at the 26th General Conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA). Freetown, Sierra Leone


• K, S. Mochish. 2016. Malayalam Print Media and Public Policy:  A Historical Analysis of the Food Struggles in Kerala, National Conference on Media and Public Policy. IIM Kashipur


• K, S. Mochish. 2015. Negotiating Gender and Caste Publicly: A Case of Land Movements in Kerala India, IAMCR- 2015, Montreal, Canada


• K, S. Mochish. 2012. Caste Struggles and the Role of Print Media: A Historical analysis of the Temple Entry Movement in Kerala. National Seminar on Media and Society, Solapur University


• K, S. Mochish. 2013. Land Struggles and the print media in Kerala: A Historical Analysis at the MA/Ph.D. Colloquium in the Department of Anthropology, University of Munster, Germany


• K, S. Mochish. Politics and the Print Media: A Historical Analysis of the Communist Movement in Kerala. International Conference on People, Politics and Media, Lake City Jagaran University, Bhopal 


• K, S. Mochish. Malayalam Language Press and Public Action in Kerala: A Historical Analysis from 1923 to 1965.  International Conference on Culture, arts and socio-political movements in south Asia: Comparative perspectives. Jaipur, Rajasthan


•  Iyer, Sanviti. and Mochish KS. 2021. Pandemic, Politics and the Safety of Journalists in the Global South: Case of COVID-19 Reporting in India. 7th International Conference of the Safety of Journalists organized by the Research group MEKK. OsloMet University, Oslo