A journo's jottings under no deadline pressure (since Jan 1, 2010)
Forty-one workers are rescued from the under-construction Silkyara Bend-Barkot Tunnel in Uttarakhand, after being trapped for 17 days. Ironically, the last stretch of the rescue mission had to be carried out manually by a 12-member “rat-hole” miners after imported machinery had failed.
Here’s a mediaman who’s seen it all, done it all… over more than four decades… from letterpress to Internet publishing. Along the way, he has brought out corporate in-house magazines; assigned work to and guided and supervised the efforts of reporters; commissioned news and feature stories, analyses, comment pieces and special reports; coordinated with networks of correspondents; reworked cover stories and features and helped launch magazines as well as corporate websites. And all along, he continues improving on his basic skills of writing/editing and photography…
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