T. V. Sunitha

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Suneetha T.V. സുനീത ടി.വി.is a noted television producer and journalist in Kerala, a southern state of India. She has worked with various Malayalam television channels like Asianet, Jeevan TV, Amrita TV etc. She started her television career as a producer for Asianet. Haritham, an environmental program she produced and anchored received wide popularity and experts' acclaim. The program became eponymous for her. The ecologically educative program Haritham (Malayalam word for greenery) was first of its kind in Malayalam television broadcasting. It secured the state government's award for best production in 1999. [1] It became a harbinger of several other such environmental educative programs, none of which however, gained the popularity or acclaim of this trail-blazer. She widely traveled across the state to shoot the program and undertook many adventurous trips to remote forests and mountains in the state. She boldly faced the risk of certain mafia plundering the rich forests of Kerala when she earned their ire by exposing their network and unholy nexus with political figures.

Another path breaking program she produced was Akathalam, which was a talk show on women's problems. The show became so popular in a short span that female audience shunned soaps to watch the program. Soon other channels followed suit with their own versions of talk shows focusing on women's issues.

Apart from being a media person, she is an activist for women's cause and an active participant in Women's Media Net, a collective of women media persons and social activists.

She is an active blogger in both Malayalam and English. [2] In her Malayalam blog she regularly publishes her literary works. Since she is an ideologue of free thought and free flow of information, she never cares to publish her literary works in copyrighted periodicals or in book form.

In 2006, being fed up with and in protest of the extraneous influence exerted on the media to muffle the righteous criticism, she left the world of media and turned to teaching. Currently she is a lecturer in Malayalam at Zamorin's Guruvayurappan College. She lives at Mankave in Calicut with her daughter Gayathri. Her husband Krishnakumar is a noted media person.