Vikram Hazra

JM Foundation for Excellence in Journalism (http://www.journalism.org.in ) today announced India’s first teaching programme in Citizen Journalism. The ten-session module, across two months, will begin on August 1, 2010. Minimum requirement is basic language skills in any Indian language. Age is not a bar. 15 students would be admitted in each batch. It is a certificate […]

There are some who claim that Indians are the most skillful car drivers in the world — coz they can chat on the phone, carry 8 passengers, eat food, sing songs, drive on the wrong side of the road etc — all at the same time! There are others who say that the traffic scene […]

The past couple of weeks have been full of speculations and accusations, none of them from our side. I mean, if someone fires a gunshot, and the bullet grazes someone’s thigh in the midst of a throng around a world-renowned personality just as he is boarding a car, then what are we supposed to surmise? […]

There was a time when I used to pour out all my frustrations and feelings on paper; it wasn’t exactly a diary, more like an outlet for a sense of alienation, of being misunderstood, which continues to be with me to this day. As the years passed, this grew into a highly subjective journal of […]

Dear Soul, If you are an Indian national, I invite you to fill up the nation-wide Survey on Combating Corruption which will eventually be presented to the policy makers of our country. It may take you about 20 minutes to complete and it would be good learning and great awareness as well. Its ideal to […]

Many many years ago, a few thousand to be precise, in a beautiful hermitage in the middle of the forest, lived a learned Guru. We will leave speculation about his name and the exact time to the historians, and focus instead on the knowledge he gave us. Among his many talented disciples, perhaps the most […]

Ummm I’ve run out of excuses — laptop and all other gadgets are fit and fine, don’t have much travelling to do (and even the places i’ll go to will be wifi enabled), have been to Ashram, spent time with Guruji, done a Part 2 course, radio show is going very well etc etc. So […]

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Two Years Ago: Beauty  

… game! Too many things happening at the same time. My main travel laptop was away in the US for a much-needed vacation and a new LCD; the big one that functions as a desktop was getting an OS makeover; I was recording episodes for my radio show, and also took off for ten days […]