"THE READING ROOM" SPECIALS

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Saturday, July 30, 2016

How marvellous it would be if you could edit your own writing...

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...but there are not many people out there who are capable of doing so. Lisa Lepki of Ragan Communications understands that and she wants to...
Sunday, July 17, 2016

"8 small things you do that people use to judge your personality"

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Yes, you will be judged on whether you are punctual, whether you arrive in time for class, for a date, for a meeting. But did you know you w...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

"I'll drill you, I'll grill you, so that the industry won't kill you"

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What makes a journalism professor tick? This short video perhaps provides the answer: This profile was produced by Commitscions Shrist...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

What is it that makes life endurable?

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"...we all require devotion to something more than ourselves for our lives to be endurable. Without it, we have only our desires to gui...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Why you shouldn't worry about what people think of you

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There are many young people out there who are sure to benefit from reading this first-person piece: "So much of life is di...
Sunday, July 3, 2016

Playing the role of a television interviewer

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Watch this clip  from my days as the host of a TV show on TMG Enter, the technology channel launched by the company I joined back in 1999 in...
Friday, June 24, 2016

YOU ARE A WRITER

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SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT: "You may say you’re not a writer. But if you have a job that requires communicating with others, you are. ...

The world is your oyster...

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...when you have the 3 i's: Interest, Initiative, Imagination. And Sumukh Mehta, a 21-year-old Bangalorean, seems to have the 3 i'...

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MEDIA PLANNER (THANK YOU, COMMITS!)

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Poorvi Kothari (Class of 2014) wrote this piece for The Commits Chronicle  in June 2016: Before I joined Commits I had no idea that a role...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

The mother of all podcasts: Serial

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More than 80 million downloads of the 12 episodes that make up Season One. That single statistic speaks volumes for the popularity of Ser...
Friday, June 17, 2016

Do you have dark thoughts?

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Such as "I am no good." Or "No one likes me." Or worse. Even if you don't, here's an NPR podcast that delves ...

GREAT WRITING CAN BE LEARNT

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"Shakespeare got better because he learnt. Now some people will tell you great writing cannot be learnt. Such people should be hit rep...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

When subs fall asleep on the job

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From today's  Times of India a. In an interview with labour minister Parameshwara Naik by Sandeep Moudgal on Page 4: " Th...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Some of the best news apps out there, for Android as well as iOS, in one post

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FYI, I have been using Newsd since last night. The best thing about Newsd for me: Human editors provide a well-written summary of each story...
Monday, May 30, 2016

What it takes to be included in an anthology of graphic non-fiction from India

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Last week, A.P. Payal, a young lecturer at the University of Delhi, became a published author. Her work of graphic non-fiction has been incl...
Saturday, May 7, 2016

Babu English, anyone?

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Look what I found in my e-mail archives recently: ------- Forwarded message ---------- From:                                            ...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

The joy of being greeted by your student on World Book Day!

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I was delighted to receive this e-mail from Sharanya Shivakumar (Class of 2017) this morning: Almost immediately I sent her my reply:...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Every writer needs an editor. Or, why subs are worth their weight in gold

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I am a huge, huge fan of Poynter. In my opinion, it is the No. 1 journalism site. Which is why there are numerous pieces on The Reading Room...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

When Commitscion Prema Sridevi's Times Now story became the talk of Parliament

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Prema Sridevi (Class of 2005)  interviews the former Home Secretary ... ...and the next day the story is  brought up in Parliam...