tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34904966758500622892024-03-14T09:32:35.901+05:30media newsmakersAll about media and mediamenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-53966436333941874852015-04-04T22:39:00.000+05:302015-04-06T15:39:50.484+05:30Joshipura-A proactive PRO with learning mindset <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This week our friend Kashyap Joshipura was in
Ahmedabad. I met him almost after a year. No doubt we have infrequent teletalks
as he is posted in Assam for last two years. He has recently been promoted as
Chief Manager Corporate Communications ONGCL, something not many know here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He is the same Kashyap who was quite friendly
with media when he was posted in Ahmedabad. His health has improved a lot
because of natural and lesser polluted air of Assam!.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b><span style="color: red;">Time stands still as he starts engaging conversation. After the recent meeting, I can confidently claim that I can deliver a small interesting lecture about
Assam and can easily visit Assam with friendly tips of Kashyap. He belongs to
Saurashtra region and I was quite surprised that a journalist in Joshipura
found Gujarat and Saurashtra in Assam.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He told about Nagaras( big drums in temples) in
Assam which are from Jasdan and ice gola (favourite candy of many in summer)making
machines which are from Rajkot. In the same breath he told how similar were
some dialect of language of Assam with Kathiawadi (Gujarati of Saurashtra).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He also brought a copy of publication of Union
of journalists of Assam. I will write about the publication sometime later.
Presently it is all about Kashyap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As the business world is becoming more
competitive with more and more people trying to catch attention of target
audience through fast growing multimedia platform, A good PR or CC man has to
be pro-active and always in a learning mode.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><b>It is not an exaggeration that Kashyap
Joshipura , CC man of Navratna, ONGCL, possess both these qualities besides
many others to have a kind of emotional balance with media and his own PR
fraternity along with right professional relationship.</b></i></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">He is of the breed that has good exposure of
news media which makes the task of a CC Man smooth, easy and effective. Armed
with PG degrees in Journalism and Public Relations, his initial career in 1980
was with English newspaper Times of India and Gujarati newspaper, Gujarat
Samachar. Both are still leading newspapers of Gujarat in their segment.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Though a graduate with English
literature, he has been successful in a highly technical organization, the
ONGCL, only because of his pro active approach and a learning mind set.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">His first encounter with PR was with Rajkot
Municipal Corporation where he was the first PRO. This being quite traditional set up sticking to hierarchical structure, probably gave him first set of challenge to
redefine the PR work in terms of modern corporate communication.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In ONGCL, he started his career with Eastern
Region with base at Calcutta, now known as Kolkata and later worked in Mumbai
in Maharashtra and Vadodara and Ahmedabad in Gujarat before being posted in
East again.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: blue;">And he has good knowledge of Bangla, Marathi
and he is learning Assamese at the fag end of his career. Besides, his mother
tongue Gujarati, he has good command over English, Hindi and Urdu- certainly a
skill that deserves adjective – polyglot.</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Relations with hometown or mother tongue are
two best known factors helping develop effective relationships- both personal
and professional. And his knowledge of many languages holds key for his
success.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">His knowledge of Marathi helped him have a Marathi
girl as his life partner when he was posted in Mumbai. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">In Ahmedabad, he was very
active with the activities of media whether it was a function of a newspaper or
an event of the newly formed Gujarat Media Club. And as the latest conversation
revealed, he is very active with journalists and journalists’ organisations in
Assam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Probably that is the reason that he leaves an
indelible impression on people he meets in his personal and professional
sphere.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-bidi-language: HI; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-33260734119917925892015-03-21T16:31:00.001+05:302015-03-21T16:31:36.349+05:30Virendra Pandit is President of Gujarat Media Club<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">The new team of Gujarat Media Club for 2015-16 was announced today. The team was selected by the new President Virendra Pandit of Hindu Business line as there was no nomination for any post of the GMC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">It is not strange that there was no candidate in the fray for elections to various posts and executive committee. Except last year where three candidates had filed nominations, people are not interested in the elections of the Club which has corpus of around Rs 75 lakh and membership base of 250 plus.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Even Virendra Pandit has been appointed as President on the basis of recommendation of the outgoing President </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Pradeep Mallik .It was seconded by Neha Amin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Pandit has chosen the following members in his team:</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 27.6000003814697px;">GMC EXECUTIVE COUNCIL (2015-16)</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">President <wbr></wbr> Virendra Pandit (Hindu Businessline)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Sr. Vice President Uday Mahurkar (India Today)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Vice President <wbr></wbr> Leena Misra (Indian Express)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Vice President Naresh Dave (Veteran Journalist)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Treasurer Ram Mani Pandey (ABP News)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Secretary General Sunil Raghu (Deccan Herald)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Joint Secretary Thakur Bhupendra Singh (News 24)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Exe. Com. Member Dakshesh Pathak (Guj. Samachar)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Exe. Com. Member Dhaval Bharwad (Divya Bhaskar)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Exe. Com. Member Nayan Dave (The Pioneer)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">All past Presidents & Secretary General will be </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18.6666660308838px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;">Special Invitees, an official release issued by the Club said.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-89739593992238988442015-03-16T22:22:00.000+05:302015-04-06T15:41:14.167+05:30GMC invites entries for Media Awards<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Gujarat Media Club today invited entries for Awards. However, the last date for submitting entries has not been declared. </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: red;"><b>When contacted , Secretary General of GMC, Nayan Dave, said that the last date would be announced soon. He further said that 10 to 15 days will be given for submission of entries.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Here is the mail the GMC sent today:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Gujarat Media Club is announcing GMC Awards 2014 for best performances in journalism in the following categories:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">1. Print News report of the Year in Gujarati</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">5. Life Time Contribution to Journalism</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">First four awards will carry a cash prize of Rs 25,000 while the fifth award will have Rs 50,000 and citation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nominations can be from Gujarati, Hindi and English languages. Journalists should be Gujarat based at the time of filing the story while all stories and photographs should have been published/broadcast between 1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2014</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>All submissions shall be related to Gujarat only and strictly be bylined. For non-bylined articles applicants have to submit verification from the editor of mass circulated dailies. Publication should be a registered entity with RNI with at least 10,000 copies in certified circulation audit. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">For Life Time Contribution to Journalism award, the nominee should have served at least 30 years in journalism. Any person can nominate a candidate for Lifetime Achievement Award accompanied by introduction of the journalist, profile, work and special contribution in advancing/benchmarking the profession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Broadcast submissions should be straight reporting or documentary style and at least 90 to 180 seconds in duration, and print articles should be at least 500 words in length.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-81435566635521180302015-03-13T00:17:00.000+05:302015-03-13T00:17:04.963+05:30Gandhinagar Samachar with the spirit of motivational journalism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">Gandhinagar
Samachar state capital’s daily newspaper today entered 30</span><sup style="color: #222222;">th</sup><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"> year. If
one takes into account its initial four years as a weekly and bi weekly it has
completed 33 years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
is a great achievement considering the fact that it was started by a government
employee quitting his job at the young age of 32 without any formal training in
journalism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MwqD75johey23JPqZfdsutbyUrmpm2TxVQJf4FqtA0NL4G_H9Ajq9zTvxf6SNqXSFZ9Ic0Vx6xekYRnTe1az3v7NRy5wQfMTsU3Cz0YdIAk_HpMBANI0mrE9Kgq1sPNbUxeFiix4VJ-A/s1600/Jha.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0MwqD75johey23JPqZfdsutbyUrmpm2TxVQJf4FqtA0NL4G_H9Ajq9zTvxf6SNqXSFZ9Ic0Vx6xekYRnTe1az3v7NRy5wQfMTsU3Cz0YdIAk_HpMBANI0mrE9Kgq1sPNbUxeFiix4VJ-A/s1600/Jha.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Krishnakant Jha in his office</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Krishnakant
Jha the Managing Editor of the newspaper has a very interesting and inspiring
story about his entrepreneurial venture.</b> A mega cultural event based on
Ramayana had hardly any coverage in the newspapers. On the other hand, he says,
ordinary incidents like accidents and statements of allegations and accusations
were prominently displayed by the media. This, he says, is in the root of the
launch of Gandhinagar Samachar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">He
is a commerce graduate.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: red;"> Though he has no formal training in journalism, he was
not a stranger to media. He was an avid reader and as leader of Sachivalaya
employees union he knew what clicked in media pretty well. In a way, he was
part of the media game.</span></b><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Armed
with this exposure to media and a deep urge for what he says motivational, Cultural
social positive journalism, he started his journey into the uncharted path of
media in 1982. Though Gandhinagar was still capital of Gujarat, it hardly had
any social life at that time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
was a city created to serve as capital of Gujarat and had no local population.
Much of the staff used to come here from Ahmedabad only to return in the
evening. One can imagine news flow and target readership of 80s.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today
almost every leading newspaper has Gandhinagar in its marketing plans.
Obviously this change in the media scene has affected Krishnakant’s one man enterprise
most. But like a successful entrepreneur, he is there with his broadsheet
Gujarati newspaper Gandhinagar samachar.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>He
says that he is still committed to his idea of motivational, Cultural social
positive journalism and gives plenty of space to such news. He feels that there
is lot of space for such positive journalism.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
agrees that other news, the hard news, is integral part of a newspaper and cannot
be ignored. It is only an issue of creating a healthy balance of news content.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He
has learnt almost every aspect of print journalism right from gathering news to
page layout and setting up a distribution network besides the most important
aspect, the ad resource mobilization.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: blue;">He
is sharing his hands on experience of media with the students of journalism for
the last five years. 64 year young Krishnakant Jha heads the media unit of the
Sarva Kadi education group which runs several educational institutions in Gandhinagar.</span></i><span style="color: #222222;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His
spirit of positive journalism is very much reflected in the annual issue of his
newspaper. He has been bringing out an annual issue for the last five year.
Like other publications, even for him it is an additional tool of resource mobilization.
But he has woven it around his theme of positive journalism. Every year it is
about a historical personality.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This
year the the issue is dedicated to great saint Narsinh Mehta, the creator of
Gandhi’s famous bhajan Vaishnav Jan to tene kahiye.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s
a compilation of useful content on glossy art paper. I went through it. It’s a collector’s
item worth preserving as a resource guide on Narsinh Mehta covering all aspects
of the life of the great saint.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><i><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If
I say that Krishnakant Jha is an epitome of motivational spirit it would not
neither be inappropriate nor exaggeration. The most striking fact is that he is
a handicapped and his mobility is through his wheel chair. But nothing has daunted
him that is his moving motivational spirit.</span></i></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-44383709582424356342015-03-09T23:20:00.000+05:302015-03-13T15:11:06.618+05:30Great exit of most sacked editor<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Vinod Mehta is no more.
Most of English newspapers and the virtual world of netizens is full of
accounts of greatness of the Editor who had visible presence in both print and
electronic medium.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is a rare phenomenon
in the media world driven by tall egos where everyone thinks that other one is a
kind of scoundrel and generally have contempt for most of peers and superiors
all alike.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>I do not know this lucknow
boy nor do I have any kind of indirect experience of interaction with him. Like
most of others, I saw and heard him in TV debates. But of late I developed a
great liking for his tweets written with handle drunken Vinod Mehta.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No doubt, he must be
having someone to tweet. But the fact remains that the tweets of drunken Vinod
Mehta had sober and quite witty mind of Vinod Mehta. His straightforward views
without mincing any word gave his views in 140 chracters. It represented free,
frank and fearless Vinod Mehta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In his obit <b>Arnab Goswami</b> has
frankly admitted that he and Vinod disagreed on most of issue, still Arnab
liked him for his natural response. He says that his idol is Vinod Mehta and
says he was the editor, he never had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b>Those who have seen shouting and barking
Arnab, find an emotional but rational Arnab when he writes about him.</b></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>M J Akbar</b> says, He began
as an editor and died as an editor more than four decades later. He never took
a demotion which is saying something.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What was so great about this
editor? Today when editors are succumbing to all kind of management trick,
Vinod Mehta was the editor who preferred sacking and in the process changed
more than half a dozen publication. Most of them were launched by him and after
some time Mehta was out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><u>Today Indian media needs
such editors who very closely guard precious editorial freedom. Probably
because most of the editors lack these guts, they found in Vinod Mehta an icon
to adulate in his death. Naturally hardly anyone could afford free and fearless
Editor.</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><span style="color: red;">Vinod Mehta knew this
truth very well. That’s why he had named his dog Editor.</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is how Smita Gupta
described his career graph in brief in obituary in The Hindu , Vinod Mehta came
to journalism from the world of advertising. In his early years in Mumbai, when
he launched Debonair, everyone was fair game. But when he moved to
newspaper journalism with The Indian Post first and then to The
Independent and finally The Pioneer, he gradually learnt over the
years, to his cost, that newspaper proprietors were not always willing to risk hurting
the fragile egos of politicians. But till the end, he never quite lost his
irreverence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">His stints in all three
newspapers were short, but despite the brevity of the tenures — a few years
each — he left the stamp of his personality on them. He attracted some of the
most talented journalists, created great teams, and then gave them the freedom
to work. It was only at the Outlook, the last organisation he launched in
Delhi, that he lasted 17 years, creating a rival to India Today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;">One can get idea of Vinod
Mehta in his own words in the two books he wrote, Lucknow boy and its sequel
Editor unplugged.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mehta did not have any
gurus but admitted that two journalists influenced him: Nikhil Chakravarty for
his honesty and fairness, and Khushwant Singh for his mischief and malice. “To
deny that I shall miss being an editor would be a towering lie,” he wrote in
his book. <b>“If the fairy godmother granted me the luxury of choosing a
profession for my next janam (life), I would say without hesitation, editor.”</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-72201002262445536462015-03-06T17:25:00.000+05:302015-03-06T17:25:27.884+05:30Kirti Khatri, national editor of a district newspaper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Kirti Khatri, Kutch and
Kutchmitra have become synonyms. Any journalist who has been to Kutch on a
journalistic assignment will agree with this introduction of Kirti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">He is a kind of moving </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">encyclopedia</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> of Kutch with a clear vision for better Kutch.</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Though Kirti retired as editor
of the leading newspaper of Kutch, Kutchmitra two years ago, he is still
associated with this newspaper as its consulting editor. This is just a
technical shift in his position in the newspaper, for people of Kutch and the
staff of the newspaper it is the same Kirti Khatri.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Recently he had been to
North-East on what he calls a personal study tour and has penned his views in
five weekly articles in his newspaper Kutchmitra for his readers. Not many have the idea that Pakistan first attacked India on April 9, 1965 in Kutch as a kind of trial for full fledged attack on
India later that year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Earlier this year, Kirti
visited Bangalore to interview 81 year old S J Coelho who was Collector of
Kutch at that time. He had literally seen the attack as he was in the target
border area on that day. Kirti remembered that story and like a great
journalist traced Coelho and interviewed him for the 50 years of the attack in
which CRPF had a huge </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">causality</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Kirti is Kutchi, son of
famous short story writer of Kutch, Jayant Khatri. But his journalistic career
began with Janshakti in Mumbai and later he moved to Jansatta in Ahmedabad. It
is here that I met him first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">However, it is his career
as Deputy Editor in 1980 and Chief Editor since 1982 for
‘Kutchmitra’ which makes him a noted journalist of the best cadre. His
insightful Editorship for ‘Kutchmitra’ has taken the Newspaper to a new
height. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><b>He has been honored with several awards starting from ‘Kutch
Shakti Award’ in1990 to ‘Harindra Dave SmritiParitoshik’
in 2011. He has also been awarded by Life Time Achievement in
Journalism Award by Gujarat Media Club.He is the second recipient of Tushar
Bhatt Journalism Award.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Kirti Khatri has come out
with a nine volume of his writings. It is basically a compilation of his
writings spanned over 32 years. This is the period when he has remained with
Kutchmitra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">The compilation is missing
the young Kirti, the man who started his career in Mumbai and later shifted to
Jansatta in Ahmedabad. He belongs to old school of journalisms where
journalists rarely thought of having records of their writings to create
profile. Even the writings in these books could become possible because of the
well organized library of Kutchmitra.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">The first of the nine
books “Manas Vali Kutchimadu” tells what Kirti means to his friends
in media, leaders in society whether they are businessmen or bureaucrats.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8FNQwo29IbQ0D13g5wS-t-s4PXZLKM6j1-dSCVpncKSnu-L-7esA-QYuvflzOVPwoDNoNggtXcI8W6fNkc1fbRbi-A2AuFAGYHJi0lEC8V8Sa9ruWW-kh2Ojt9E5QQHV_vmevG5lQouW8/s1600/Kirti+book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8FNQwo29IbQ0D13g5wS-t-s4PXZLKM6j1-dSCVpncKSnu-L-7esA-QYuvflzOVPwoDNoNggtXcI8W6fNkc1fbRbi-A2AuFAGYHJi0lEC8V8Sa9ruWW-kh2Ojt9E5QQHV_vmevG5lQouW8/s1600/Kirti+book.jpg" height="320" width="209" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of his books</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><b><i>The title of the first
article in this book aptly describes what Kirti Khatri is. The title is
“national editor of a district newspaper”. Probably nothing can describe
journalist in Kirti better than this title.</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Like me many journalist
friends feel that he would have a star journalist if he were in Mumbai or
Delhi. But, he is Kutchi Madu-man of Kutch- and always remained kutchi. As son
of famous Kutch based short story writer Jayant Khatri, spirit of Kutch is in
his blood and since he was brought up in Kutch and his growth was mainly in
Kutch, he breaths Kutch in all aspects of his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">And if he were not there,
who could have told national media about what Kutch is what are its problems
and the fascinating kutch. Like me there are scores of journalists for whom
Kirti was the main source of stories about Kutch. Stories of border issues hit
headlines in national media with journalists accumulating by-lines, all
courtesy Kirti Khatri, a name unknown to the readers of these stories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">Writings in the eight
volumes take reader to Kutch when scarcity and Kutch were common as struggle of
Kutchi men and arduous terrain of the second biggest district of India.<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><b>March 12 is the birthday
of Kirti born in 1946.</b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-language: HI;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-16945301758760660582015-03-05T23:13:00.000+05:302015-03-05T23:13:00.448+05:30S&T communication Award to Gujarat journalist<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For Ahmedabad based journalist, Sarasvatichandra Acharya, science
has been a subject beyond his school and college text book. Though he writes on
variety of subjects, science and scientists figure in his writings and films
prominently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHE4NIlVCoSD57SUi9HCItw37pfHFguOqgZ2xR9hc0ZXSI9RKzS0z-F0J2DZuTAoudhFCllmVEsVn-sQJFiIchoA27nH0dGlCFehu30Ebnz31vxfkO8jwjZlapBLGcvHU1K0nIPzjZgGHP/s1600/Sarasvatichandra+reciving+trophy+of+national+award.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHE4NIlVCoSD57SUi9HCItw37pfHFguOqgZ2xR9hc0ZXSI9RKzS0z-F0J2DZuTAoudhFCllmVEsVn-sQJFiIchoA27nH0dGlCFehu30Ebnz31vxfkO8jwjZlapBLGcvHU1K0nIPzjZgGHP/s1600/Sarasvatichandra+reciving+trophy+of+national+award.JPG" height="212" width="320" /></a></span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This profile of the Physics graduate Acharya has won him coveted
award of National Council for Science and Technology Communication. He has been
given award for communication in the electronic medium category which carries award
of Rs 1,00,000, a memento and a citation
at a function in Delhi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>These awards are given on National Science Day, Feb 28. The day marks the discovery of Raman Effect by Physicist Dr. C V Raman who got Nobel Prize for this.</b></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He has produced more than dozen films about science, mainly about
institutions working in the field of science communication. Almost equal number
of films he has on health awareness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Besides this he frequently contributes news and features in print
and electronic media. He is a regular contributor of science content to Rajya
Sabha and Lok Sabha TV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He feels that much of science communication in the country is
limited to English and Hindi. In the process regional languages which are main
channels of communication to much of the population is left out from the main
stream science communication. There is lot of scope for this. There is no
shortage of funds for such an activity, but it is to be targeted and
prioritized.</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Armed with a B.Sc and LLB
degree he started his career with Ahmedabad doordarshan in 1996 as news reader.
Later he joined Gujarati Financial Express and Sambhav group. In 2004, he
joined Deergha media, an audio visual media launched by his wife Manisha
Sharma. He runs a content generation agency.</span><b style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></b></div>
</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-9740513056037930252015-03-04T22:34:00.001+05:302015-04-14T00:47:25.389+05:30Mind your language- Five Rules of George Orwell <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Language
is a tool of communication. But most of us tend to flaunt our vocabulary as a
prized possession. In many cases we go for clumsy sentences, cliché and jargon
which make our writings and other content expressions weak. This may sound
simple, but this is probably the most difficult task we journalists face. We
work against time. We have daily challenge of meeting deadlines. Competition
stress drives us to short cuts like cut-paste. </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If
you want to be understood, if you want your ideas to spread, using effective
language must be your top priority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">In the modern world this is hardly ever the case. In many
instances, imprecise language is used intentionally to avoid taking a position
and offending various demographics. No wonder it's hard to make sense of
anything!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is not a recent problem, and as George Orwell wrote in
his 1946 essay,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i><b>Politics and
the English Language</b></i>, the condition is curable. Try these 5 Rules of
Orwell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">1. Never use a metaphor, simile, or
other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This sounds easy, but in practice is incredibly difficult. Phrases
such as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>toe the line</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>ride roughshod over</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>stand shoulder to shoulder with</i>,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>play into the hands of, an axe to
grind, Achilles' heel, swan song,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i>and<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>hotbed</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>come to mind quickly and feel
comforting and melodic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">For this exact reason they must be avoided. Common phrases have
become so comfortable that they create no emotional response. Take the time to
invent fresh, powerful images.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What does expressions like inclusive growth or HDI mean. They just
mean benefit of development to all. It's so simple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2. Never use a long word where a short
one will do.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Long words don't make you sound intelligent unless used
skillfully. In the wrong situation they'll have the opposite effect, making you
sound pretentious and arrogant. They're also less likely to be understood and
more awkward to read. Faulkner criticised Hemingway for his limited word
choice. Hemingway said, Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come
from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all
right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones
I use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">3. If it is possible to cut a word
out, always cut it out.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the
utmost possible degree. Accordingly, any words that don't contribute meaning to
a passage dilute its power. Less is always better. Always.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">4. Never use the passive where you can
use the active.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This one is frequently broken, probably because many people don't
know the difference between active and passive . Here is an example that
makes it clear:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The man was bitten by the dog. (passive)<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>The dog bit the man. (active).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The active is better because it's shorter and more forceful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">5. Never use a foreign phrase, a
scientific word, or a jargon if you can think of its equivalent in your
language.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This is tricky because writing now a days can
be highly technical. If possible, remain accessible to the average reader.
If your audience is highly specialized this is a judgment call. You don't want
to drag on with unnecessary explanation, but try to help people understand what
you're writing about. You want your ideas to spread right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">6. Break any of these rules sooner
than saying anything outright barbarous.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This bonus rule is a catch all. Above all, be sure to use common
sense.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">These rules are easy to memorize but difficult to apply. The key
is effort. Good writing matters, probably more than we think.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I hope you find these rules helpful including my bonus
rule and through their application we're able to understand each other a
little bit better. If you enjoyed this post, be sure to read <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001X4zce1hGKEYOgst9RDaDLIAnng4-5BY-Z7nIHkH6f4xa378FQIsBgzYK-kbX0H1BK-jIKzMqwQgi8deVbrNwQxOueaUpb50Ygi5lUmHO91PseNsZtB-cz18nnmKZ-Ft_eQb1YVI2xO_bjcdgjGY6bcwhr8DZTxT4mtSd9sseG18=" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">Orwells original essay</span></a>.
It contains many helpful examples and is, of course, a pleasure to read.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-52241669212975683782015-03-03T00:12:00.003+05:302015-03-03T00:20:22.329+05:30Budget, Media and Common Men<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I spent much of the last
two days trying to understand the Union Budget 2015 surfing through channels
and turning pages of major newspapers. Let me admit that I could not make out
anything. Like me there must be many.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><i>I wonder for whom we
write. I feel our news stories must be able to communicate a clear and concise
message, the crux of the thing. </i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Budget is a complex exercise
touching almost all aspect of our economy. For this purpose, major newspapers
particularly English newspapers engage a battery of “experts” to explain it for
the readers. Still it leaves one major task for the newspaper to give overall
picture. Most of newspapers have conveniently used all page make up tricks,
like blurbs and subheading to avoid this basic task.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It may surprise, regional
and language newspapers have reports that have kept their reader in mind while
presenting budget on Page 1. English newspapers indulged in rhetoric talking
about the budget in terms like road map and terms like never before and for the
first time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I am not here to give
sermons on journalism. I am just talking about communication. Despite all talk
about revitalizing economy, attracting investment and providing social security
to underprivileged our friends missed the most visible fine print of the budget-
it is inflationary. This is something which is most striking fact and yet most
ignored aspect of the budget in media.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This may get space in
coming days, but was missing on day 1. Only “Local” newspapers reported it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tax is the most tangible aspect
of the budget. Rest is road map or something that will pay off when it is
implemented. <b>And in this budget increase in the Service Tax is the aspect that
will touch all. Whether there is non Income Tax paying poor or a super rich all
are affected by this.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Now with this increase in
price of services, one will face what we call inflation in jargon of economics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, income level of
all will remain same as there is no change in Income Tax. Theoretically super
rich will have lesser money because of 2 percent tax introduced for this
category in the budget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>And so what will be the
net effect of this inflationary measure. It will pinch people more.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The problem with budget
reporting is that we engage experts who are basically industry leaders. We must
admit that there thinking is focused more on their issues and thus bound to
miss many finer points.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Even in this, if we take
newspapers and debate reports of previous years we will find that in number of
cases same faces appear every year. Are we not getting same old odour instead
of fresh air. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;"><i><b>The purpose of this write
is not to show off anything but to pose a question. Can’t we think in
terms of our reader who is the focus of communication of our content? </b></i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b>And you know from where I
got the direct message of inflationary budget. From common men on the street who was
thinking of more difficult daily life in coming days.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><b><br /></b></span></div>
<br />
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I think 500 words are enough to drive home the point .</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-65841975406705325442015-03-02T22:59:00.000+05:302015-03-02T23:01:45.549+05:30S B Rawal takes over as Information Commissioner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the retirement of Bhagyesh Jha, Information Department of Gujarat has new Commissioner- S B Rawal. He took over the new assignment today.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before this assignment, Rawal was Collector of Morbi district. He was appointed as first collector of the newly formed Morbi district.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rawal joined Gujarat Administrative Service in 1986 and served as Deputy Collector of Bhavnagar and Rajkot. He was also Director of District Rural Development Agency in Ahmedabad and Bhavnagar.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-55573441107161597852015-03-01T06:05:00.000+05:302015-03-01T06:05:09.401+05:30Gujarat Media Club is facing identity crisis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Gujarat Media Club is entering 10<sup>th</sup>
year this year. Started with much fanfare in 2006, the Club is facing identity
crisis. Except some annual activities like Navratri festival and IOC-GMC
cricket tournament which are sponsored there is hardly anything it can boast
of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Even in these events, lack of
interest of members is evident and team of office bearers has to make efforts
to save its face and thus have sponsorship live. These two activities were
started in the initial phase.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Though the Club started Media
Awards with ONGC funds two years ago, it has failed to attract good number of entries.
It has Hindi and Gujarati categories also and the amount of the award is quite
handsome. In this case, more than members apathy, it is the routine
bureaucratic approach of the team GMC that has led to award on ventilator
situation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I have been associated with the
Club from its formation days. I have seen the initial enthusiasm of its members
fading away in the years that have witnessed both internal and external politics
involving other journalists (non-members, more powerful than the might of a
club which got 100 members in its first year).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">No doubt there were bright patches also. But it is a fact that knocking the door of the </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">tenth</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"> year, the Club with deposits of lakhs of rupees to its credit is an organisation in search of its soul.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The problem with the Club is of
the identity crisis. For media in Ahmedabad it is a club of English journalists
(I do not want to use the phrase generally used to express this) Within the Club no one knows
what Club stands for, whom it represents and what it should do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">This month club is going to
have its elections. A formal announcement of election was made today. Till now,
elections have been a formal exercise as only last year two or three had come
out to contest. They were ultimately declared elected uncontested.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">I am producing an article which
I had written on its launch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A lot has changed since then. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Here is an article Gujarat
Global had on the launch of the Club last year.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Gujarat Media Club, a club of
journalists associated with all forms of media has been launched. Moving spirit
behind the idea R K Misra of Pioneer( he is very much in profession, but not
with Pioneer) said that the club on the lines of press clubs elsewhere in the
country has been registered under section 25 of the Companies Act to make the
organization accountable and transparent.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Several attempts have been made
in the past to run a press club, but all failed in initial stages. In this
sense, the media club can be called a successful innovation that is all set to
click with its novel approach. Besides Misra, the promoters of the club are
Brajesh kumar Singh of STAR News and Sunil Raghu of CNBC( he is now with other
banner)</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Highlighting its various unique
features its promoters said that as the word media reflects that the club
represents journalists associated with the entire media, not just print media.
The idea is to have a club to provide journalists better resources for their
professional work, aspirant journalists to have a place to get better idea of
the profession and to help veteran journalists since there is no social
security concept in the media, Brajesh Kumar Singh said.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">It has regular members, life
members and associate members and has enough scope for others associated with
media like PR and advertising professionals, government media and corporate
members. There is an elaborate fee structure for different categories. The Club
will undertake research and training activities besides content generation to
make itself an independent income generating organization, according to Sunil
Raghu.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sanjay Pandey of Crisil
Marketwire who is the secretary of the Club finds response of journalists to
the club very encouraging. He said that to really do groundwork to create an
edifice of working journalists in the state as many as 11 committees will be
formed to take care of different jobs ranging from membership drive to
disciplinary committee. Sanjay has been doing one of the most challenging job
of coordinating different people.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He said that the concept of
committees is quite innovative in the sense that people are being asked to
volunteer for the post of convener of the committee and these conveners will be
free to choose their team. The idea is to provide committees an environment to
deliver result. We should have a team of dedicated office bearers who are
willing to slog for two years to create strong foundation of the Club so that
it can withstand all kind of pressures.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The treasurer of the Club,
Rammani Pandey of Star, said that before the formal announcement of the launch
on Saturday, the club had 14 life members who paid money. On the day of the
launch 15 more life and regular members bought forms. He said that there were
many queries from several journalists and their interest reflected their
enthusiasm to join.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
President of the club R K Misra clarified that initially the activities of the
Club will be limited to Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar and later gradually it will
have a state level network. He also made it clear that the present body has
been nominated for two years in the interest of the growth of the organization
and after that regular election will be held.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">The club has also launched its
website which will be developed as a full fledged channel for different
activities. Members will have access to its database.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Lets wish that the 10<sup>th</sup>
year of the Club proves a milestone and give it right identity.</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-1967971206570056692015-02-27T00:20:00.000+05:302015-02-27T00:20:13.995+05:30Jargons, Journalese and slangs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>This is another piece from my old blog media newsletter. I am reproducing here because it is a great learning exercise for more effective communication.</b><br />
Friends Jargon, Journalese and slang are the words we should avoid. Many international publications have their style guide which tells journalists about publication's stand about different aspects of language to be used. Here is style guide of Economist about these three very important aspects of language which reporters and writers generally tend to ignore.</div>
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<strong goog_docs_charindex="10130" id="ny5t"><span goog_docs_charindex="10131" id="qzj_" style="color: #cc0033;">Jargon<br /></span></strong><span goog_docs_charindex="10142" id="zry9" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;">Avoid it. You may have to think harder if you are not to use jargon, but you can still be precise. Technical terms should be used in their proper context; do not use them out of it. In many instances simple words can do the job of <b goog_docs_charindex="10374" id="qufk">exponential</b> (try <b goog_docs_charindex="10393" id="imsp">fast</b>), <b goog_docs_charindex="10402" id="l3-c">interface</b> (<b goog_docs_charindex="10415" id="mri3">frontier</b> or <b goog_docs_charindex="10429" id="d1hg">border</b>) and so on. If you find yourself tempted to write about <b goog_docs_charindex="10494" id="q6bx">affirmative action</b> or <b goog_docs_charindex="10518" id="i.9r">corporate governance</b>, you will have to explain what it is; with luck, you will then not have to use the actual expression.<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="10646" id="svrl" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;">Avoid, above all, the kind of jargon that tries either to dignify nonsense with seriousness (<b goog_docs_charindex="10740" id="mr3v">The appointee...should have a proven track record of operating at a senior level within a multi-site international business, preferably within a service- or brand-oriented environment</b>, declared an advertisement for a financial controller for The Economist Group) or to obscure the truth (<b goog_docs_charindex="11030" id="ssyn">We shall not launch the ground offensive until we have attrited the Republican Guard to the point when they no longer have an effective offensive capacity</b>—the Pentagon's way of saying that the allies would not fight on the ground until they had killed so many Iraqis that the others would not attack). What was meant by the Israeli defence ministry when it issued the following press release remains unclear:<b goog_docs_charindex="11442" id="vf:v"> The United States and Israel now possess the capability to conduct real-time simulations with man in the loop for full-scale theatre missile defence architectures for the Middle East</b>.<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="11632" id="qasa" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;">Try not to use foreign words and phrases unless there is no English alternative, which is unusual (so <b goog_docs_charindex="11735" id="pij1">a year</b> or <b goog_docs_charindex="11747" id="dxxl">per year</b>, not <b goog_docs_charindex="11763" id="zq.n">per annum</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="11778" id="kiom">a person</b> or <b goog_docs_charindex="11792" id="dyhr">per person</b>, not <b goog_docs_charindex="11810" id="m8k4">per capita</b>;<b goog_docs_charindex="11825" id="ni:0"> beyond one's authority</b>, not <b goog_docs_charindex="11856" id="wkwu">ultra vires</b>; and so on).<br /></span><strong goog_docs_charindex="11888" id="hhv4"><span goog_docs_charindex="11889" id="ue81" style="color: #cc0033;">Journalese and slang<br /></span></strong><span goog_docs_charindex="11914" id="va0k" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;">Do not be too free with slang (eg, <b goog_docs_charindex="11952" id="fla-">He really hit the big time in 1994</b>). Slang, like metaphors, should be used only occasionally if it is to have effect. Avoid expressions used only by journalists, such as giving people <b goog_docs_charindex="12138" id="m:cr">the thumbs up</b>, <b goog_docs_charindex="12155" id="le2:">the thumbs down</b> or <b goog_docs_charindex="12176" id="ev_e">the green light</b>. Stay clear of <b goog_docs_charindex="12209" id="ax_l">gravy trains</b> and <b goog_docs_charindex="12228" id="b37o">salami tactics</b>. Do not use <b goog_docs_charindex="12257" id="xxod">the likes of</b>. And avoid words and expressions that are ugly or overused, such as <b goog_docs_charindex="12340" id="bb8l">the bottom line</b>, <b goog_docs_charindex="12359" id="kopp">high profile</b>, <b goog_docs_charindex="12375" id="vpug">caring </b>(as an adjective), <b goog_docs_charindex="12403" id="noz3">carers</b>, <b goog_docs_charindex="12413" id="k-6l">guesstimate</b> (use <b goog_docs_charindex="12432" id="grdq">guess</b>), <b goog_docs_charindex="12442" id="hsom">schizophrenic</b> (unless the context is medical), <b goog_docs_charindex="12491" id="d3x3">crisis</b>, <b goog_docs_charindex="12501" id="p0i_">key</b>, <b goog_docs_charindex="12508" id="rnd8">major</b> (unless something else nearby is <b goog_docs_charindex="12549" id="fhcc">minor</b>), <b goog_docs_charindex="12559" id="dbfm">massive</b> (as in <b goog_docs_charindex="12576" id="o3.i">massive inflation</b>), <b goog_docs_charindex="12598" id="i:..">meaningful, perceptions</b>, <b goog_docs_charindex="12625" id="s5iw">prestigious </b>and<b goog_docs_charindex="12642" id="hzu1"> significant</b>.<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="12661" id="e_14" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;">Politicians are often said to be highly <b goog_docs_charindex="12702" id="hjdz">visible</b>, when <b goog_docs_charindex="12718" id="idpj">conspicuous</b> would be more appropriate. Regulations are sometimes said to be designed to create <b goog_docs_charindex="12815" id="lozu">transparency</b>, which presumably means <b goog_docs_charindex="12854" id="bots">openness</b>. <b goog_docs_charindex="12866" id="s2q1">Governance</b> usually means <b goog_docs_charindex="12893" id="vhix">government</b>. Elections described as <b goog_docs_charindex="12930" id="r3b0">too close to call</b> are usually just <b goog_docs_charindex="12967" id="gaqz">close</b>.<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="12978" id="r2hv" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;">Try not to be predictable, especially predictably jocular. Spare your readers any mention of <b goog_docs_charindex="13072" id="rl75">mandarins</b> when writing about the civil service, of <b goog_docs_charindex="13125" id="e3c4">their lordships</b> when discussing the House of Lords, and of <b goog_docs_charindex="13186" id="ckub">comrades</b> when analysing communist parties. Must all lawns be <b goog_docs_charindex="13249" id="fhnp">manicured</b>? Are drug traffickers inevitably <b goog_docs_charindex="13294" id="u23-">barons</b>?<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="13306" id="okps" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;">In general, try to make your writing fresh. It will seem stale if it reads like hackneyed journalese. One weakness of journalists, who on daily newspapers may plead that they have little time to search for the apposite word, is a love of the ready-made, seventh-hand phrase. Lazy journalists are always at home in <b goog_docs_charindex="13621" id="a:n6">oil-rich</b> country A, ruled by <b goog_docs_charindex="13652" id="ai82">ailing</b> President B, the <b goog_docs_charindex="13678" id="q72g">long-serving strongman</b>, who is, according to the<b goog_docs_charindex="13729" id="umr0">chattering classes</b>, a <b goog_docs_charindex="13753" id="pogs">wily political operator</b>—hence the present <b goog_docs_charindex="13797" id="db-:">uneasy peace</b>—but, after his recent <b goog_docs_charindex="13834" id="qvkk">watershed</b> (or <b goog_docs_charindex="13850" id="f:yh">landmark</b> or <b goog_docs_charindex="13864" id="wdd7">sea-change</b>) decision to arrest his prime minister (the <b goog_docs_charindex="13921" id="ebpu">honeymoon is over</b>), will soon face a <b goog_docs_charindex="13960" id="s_t-">bloody uprising</b> in the <b goog_docs_charindex="13985" id="fih6">breakaway</b> south. Similarly, lazy business journalists always enjoy describing the problems of <b goog_docs_charindex="14081" id="pntz">troubled</b> company C, a victim of the <b goog_docs_charindex="14119" id="gnz0">revolution</b> in the gimbal-pin industry (change is always revolutionary in such industries), which, <b goog_docs_charindex="14221" id="bs12">well-placed insiders</b> predict, will be riven by a<b goog_docs_charindex="14272" id="dpzm">make-or-break</b> strike unless one of the major players makes an <b goog_docs_charindex="14336" id="a.5y">11th-hour</b> (or <b goog_docs_charindex="14354" id="acut">last-ditch</b>) intervention in a <b goog_docs_charindex="14386" id="xb5-">marathon </b>negotiating session.<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="14421" id="yudz" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;">Prose such as this is freighted with codewords (<b goog_docs_charindex="14470" id="m.od">respected</b> is applied to someone the writer approves of, <b goog_docs_charindex="14528" id="oyh7">militant</b> someone he disapproves of, <b goog_docs_charindex="14566" id="fybs">prestigious</b> something you won't have heard of). The story can usually start with the words, <b goog_docs_charindex="14660" id="j-xk">First the good news</b>, inevitably to be followed in due course by <b goog_docs_charindex="14726" id="wnwq">Now the bad news</b>. A quote will then be inserted, attributed to <b goog_docs_charindex="14791" id="u1mx">one</b> (never <b goog_docs_charindex="14804" id="n6gw">an</b>) <b goog_docs_charindex="14810" id="uq_s">industry analyst</b>, and often the words<b goog_docs_charindex="14849" id="bdcs"> If, and it's a big if...</b> Towards the end, after an admission that the author has no idea what is going on, there is always room for <b goog_docs_charindex="14984" id="twh0">One thing is certain</b>, before rounding off the article with <b goog_docs_charindex="15045" id="dx5b">As one wag put it...</b><br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="15071" id="i8bg" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;">Perhaps even more wearying for the reader is the trendy journalist's fondness of vogue words and expressions. Some of these are deliberately chosen (<b goog_docs_charindex="15221" id="u:i1">bridges too far</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15240" id="c74x">empires striking back</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15265" id="zg5p">kinder, gentler</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15284" id="c.op">F-words</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15295" id="zxwh">flavours of the month</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15320" id="tjy1">Generation X</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15336" id="w.jq">hearts and minds;$64,000 questions</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15374" id="cljt">southern discomfort</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15397" id="i1ot">back to the future</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15419" id="dfk2">thirty-somethings</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15440" id="towk">windows of opportunity</b>; <b goog_docs_charindex="15466" id="o:ly">where's the beef?</b>), usually from a film or television, or perhaps a politician. Others come into use less wittingly, often from social scientists. If you find yourself using any of the following words, you should stop and ask yourself whether (a) it is the best word for the job (b) you would have used it in the same context five or ten years ago, and if not why not:<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="15840" id="h-31" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="15841" id="yvwt">address </b>(questions can be <b goog_docs_charindex="15869" id="bhws">answered</b>, issues <b goog_docs_charindex="15888" id="w77i">discussed</b>, problems <b goog_docs_charindex="15910" id="kciz">solved</b>, difficulties <b goog_docs_charindex="15933" id="m1jz">dealt with</b>)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="15950" id="p.q3" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="15951" id="a72r">care for</b> and all <b goog_docs_charindex="15970" id="bjj7">caring</b> expressions (how about <b goog_docs_charindex="16002" id="w3ha">look after</b>?)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="16075" id="dudv" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="16076" id="lqfb">environment</b> (in a writing environment you may want to make use of your Tipp-Ex, rubber or delete button)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="16187" id="eyyi" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="16188" id="f31w">famously</b> (usually redundant, nearly always irritating)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="16247" id="j.gp" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="16248" id="pc:l">focus</b> (all the world's a stage, not a lens)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="16297" id="wish" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="16298" id="u4lf">individual</b> (fine in some contexts, but increasingly used as a longer synonym for <b goog_docs_charindex="16381" id="rmdp">man</b>, <b goog_docs_charindex="16388" id="wedx">woman</b> or <b goog_docs_charindex="16399" id="cg:3">person</b>)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="16411" id="eapg" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="16412" id="cnti">overseas</b> (increasingly used, and often wrongly, to mean <b goog_docs_charindex="16470" id="q3j6">abroad</b> or <b goog_docs_charindex="16482" id="rt3s">foreign</b>)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="16495" id="xmiw" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="16496" id="lps_">participate in</b> (<b goog_docs_charindex="16514" id="kbqk">take part in</b>—more words but fewer syllables)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="16564" id="qe-l" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="16565" id="b1gp">partner</b> (“<b goog_docs_charindex="16577" id="tu_3">Take your partners for the Gay Gordons!</b>” by all means, but dancing together does not necessarily mean sleeping together—just as a sleeping partner is not necessarily a lover)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="16759" id="ospc" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="16760" id="t2_k">process</b> (a word properly applied to the Arab-Israeli peace affair, because it was meant to be evolutionary, but now often used in place of <b goog_docs_charindex="16901" id="n2od">talks</b>)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="16913" id="s7:7" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="16914" id="khsm">relationship</b> (<b goog_docs_charindex="16930" id="ymr5">relations</b> can nearly always do the job)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="16975" id="s5g8" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="16976" id="lrvw">resources</b> (especially human resources, which may be <b goog_docs_charindex="17030" id="y4_3">personnel</b>, <b goog_docs_charindex="17043" id="czqp">staff</b> or just <b goog_docs_charindex="17059" id="m6ce">people</b>)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="17072" id="whyq" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="17073" id="zwok">skills</b> (these are turning up all over the place—in learning skills, thinking skills, teaching skills—instead of <b goog_docs_charindex="17187" id="dqf0">the ability to. He has the skills</b> probably means <b goog_docs_charindex="17238" id="jq-p">He can</b>)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="17251" id="wzev" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="17252" id="qvkf">supportive</b> (<b goog_docs_charindex="17266" id="imkl">helpful</b>?)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="17281" id="c25z" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="17282" id="g10t">target</b> (if you are tempted to <b goog_docs_charindex="17314" id="lta0">target</b> your efforts, try to <b goog_docs_charindex="17344" id="bfck">direct</b> them instead)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="17370" id="z7g:" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;"><b goog_docs_charindex="17371" id="jzoi">transparency</b> (<b goog_docs_charindex="17387" id="iq_j">openness</b>?)<br /></span><span goog_docs_charindex="17403" id="w64d" style="font-family: verdana, geneva, arial, sans serif; font-size: -1;">Such words are not wrong, but if you find yourself using them only because you hear others using them, not because they are the most appropriate ones in the context, you should avoid them. Overused words and off-the-shelf expressions make for stale prose. </span></div>
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<b>While going through my blog media newsletter I came across a write up about Jagadish Thakkar who is now PRO with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. You cant imagine my delight on this find which is rare by all counts.</b></div>
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<b>A lot has been written about Jagadish Thakkar after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister and took him to 7RCR. But all this was woven around one theme that he is silent and it is difficult to get a story out of him. It is true. Only because of this reason my write up about this silent man is a kind of scoop.</b></div>
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<b>Jagadish Thakkar is highly conscious about his interaction with media. He won't allow you to get anything from hism. I used to sit with him in press gallery of Gujarat Vidhan Sabha. In several sittings I could get some interesting details from him about himself. But not even a word about any of the Chief Ministers he had served.</b></div>
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<b>He never allowed anyone to take hisphotograph. However, one day I managed this photograph from my mobile and ran this story on my website. But the story was lost in migration to different web platform since 2008 when I had written it. Here is the story as it appeared in March 2008 during the budget session. Even now the budget session is on.</b></div>
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<b>I do not think that there can be better item for my new blog.</b></div>
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The block number one of Sachivalaya in Gandhinagar has seen ten Chief Ministers in the last 22 years. There were many more senior bureaucrats attached to the CMO during this period which has seen many turbulent periods of murky politics ranging from struggle for plum portfolios among ministers to the famous Khajuraho episode, the first divide in the monolith of the Bharatiya Janata Party by its own man Shankarsinh Vaghela.</div>
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But all along these years, if there is one single person who has been quite close to the hot seat of power that runs the state is Jagadish Thakkar, Public Relations Officer to the Chief Minister. The low profile Thakkar is ubiquitous by his presence as a shadow to the Chief Minister in his all major public functions and mostly available in the CMO when the Chief Minister is in Gandhinagar.</div>
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At least for the last four years, I have been trying to find the secret of his survival in such a mercurial environment of the CMO where power politics is the other name of the existence. But, all in vain. Jagdishbhai as everyone calls him will offer tea and snacks, will use all his body language to express intimacy while refraining from the sensitive question. A touch of warmth only to signal that do not touch this subject.</div>
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Staff in the CMO calls him Dada. Most of the Chief Ministers have called him Jagdishbhai except Chimabhai Patel and Chhabildas Mehta who called him Jagdish. Something which he relishes when he recounts this fact. Keshubhai Patel used to call him Thakkar as per the tradition of Saurashtra region to which Keshubhai belonged. However, he also started calling him Jagadishbhai when he realized that there was another Thakkar in the staff and it created confusion.</div>
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And this is precisely the secret of his success. He sees everything and hears everything, but speaks nothing. Though he sits with journalists in public functions, he seals himself off all that might give wrong signals. With media his job ends with the taking notes of the event for writing of the press release of an event.</div>
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After much persuasion I could elicit only this statement from him. "I know the mind of my Chief Minister and I work accordingly. That is my brief". This is what he said when I asked him what makes a good PRO. The PRO must know about the organization and its objective, this is his general advice for becoming a successful PRO.</div>
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Jagdishbhai, basically a journalist who started his career with Lok Satta Vadodara in 1967 and later shifted to Saurastra Samachar in Bhavnagar joined the state Information department in 1972 as District Information Officer. From the day one, he has to deal with the crisis management and probably that is the reason that he is able to handle the crisis prone position in the CMO.</div>
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His appointment has an interesting tale. Though he had to take charge of Mehsana office, he was asked to report to Bharuch where the office had all kind of problem. There are many places in his list where he was posted to deal with crisis ridden position. And so when the then Director of Information P K Laheri selected him for the post of PRO for the Chief Minister Amarsinh Chaudhary he made a right choice.</div>
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He was introduced to the Chief Minister who uttered only one sentence. From tomorrow you will sit here in my office. And since then Jagdishbhai is an integral part of CMO. Though he retired four years back, he is continuing as PRO. In the last 22 years he has rose from the post of Assistant Director of Information to the Additional Director. But people know him only as PRO to the Chief Minister.</div>
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He started his career with Amarsinh Chaudhary. He is the first moving PRO. Until he joined, PRO used to sit in the Information Department and his job was more or less to issue CM's messages. And since then he is always on the move with the Chief Minister. He writes press releases of the CM himself. And for the journalists his copy is a great help in the coverage.</div>
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And as a good PRO he tells about his boss, the Chief Minister even if the other guest has a better point!</div>
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His assignments are a chronicle of the CM office. After Chaudhary, he worked with Madhavsinh Solanki who was reinducted for eight months. Then came Chimanbhai Patel followed by Chhabildas Mehta. His next boss was Keshubhai Patel who was later ousted by Shankarsinh Vaghela. After him came his confidant Dilip Parikh and Suresh Mehta and then after a full turn Keshubhai Patel again. And now Narendra Modi.</div>
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His present tenure is until February 2008. He does not plan to retire from the active life. He wants to write. Not the inner stories of the power game, but something social, something that makes people think and talk. He ran a serial on Doordarshan "Aghaat" for one year and now he writes one story a year- in the annual issue of government publication Gujarat.</div>
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Though he does not want to talk anything political at least with the journalists, he has a good repository of interesting instances of his life. Here is one that happened during the period of Navnirman agitation when Jagdishbhai was in greens of his career. He was posted in Mehsana on a quite a junior post of DIO.</div>
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Law and order situation was turning worse. A mamlatdar suggested that night curfew should be clamped to bring situation under control. But who should bring this suggestion to the notice of the district Collector and the District Superintendent of Police. Jagdishbhai suggested this to the bosses. They promised him to come back to him soon since the night session of the Radio was to close at 11 pm.</div>
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Jagdishbhai kept on trying to contact till 10.55 pm. Ultimately, he released a statement in his own name that the curfew is clamped in the Mehsana town. Collector and DSP were surprised, but Jagdishbhai had his explanation of deadline of the Radio. Subsequently orders of curfew were issued and in the morning both the bosses complimented Jagdishbhai for the timely response.</div>
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And from those days he knows how the government works.</div>
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His personal life is also quite interesting. Till the date he has seen only four films. They are Madhumati, Laajvanti, Mughl-e-Azam and Saara Akash. He is married. His wife used to run a school and also social service organization in Gandhinagar. Later, she opted for the social service only. Though, Jagadishbhai moves round a lot on official assignments, he has never gone out with his family.</div>
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Despite all this, he says he is a happy man with happy family. One has to believe him seeing him.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07183084459399181101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490496675850062289.post-84681844027197605672015-02-26T22:09:00.000+05:302015-02-26T22:09:58.471+05:30About the blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The idea of this blog is to write about media and newmakers. I am very clear about the news makers. For most of us these are the persons and celebrities who hit headline in newspapers and flat screen of TV. Now web portals are also added into the increasing list of media platforms.</div>
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But my news makers are we journalists who create names and faces of headlines.</div>
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In the past I started two blogs. One was Gujarat media and another media newsletter. I did not continue for long. It was mainly because of my own lethargy rather than the idea of those two blogs that led to premature death of the two.</div>
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In this blog, I want to provide a platform where people can know about what is happening in media, where it is going and about people who make the news, journos, to use a single and most widely used expression.</div>
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No doubt the blog will have all shades of journos, right from reporters of good old days to anchors of modern time.</div>
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<b>In 30 years in the profession, I have found that we know a lot about people on our beat, but hardly have any information about other journalists. No doubt we have all kind of stories about celebrities of our profession and we talk a lot about them like other celebrities. It is to fill this void.</b></div>
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Media is changing a lot, but there is not free and frank discussion. In this blog I would like to talk about this change.</div>
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This post is just to give a brief of idea. However, in the fast changing world of information age, this may change its dimensions.</div>
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But the basic spirit will be the same. We journalists and our world.</div>
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