Tag: my life with books
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My Life With Books: Karthik Venkatesh
Based in Bangalore, Karthik is an Executive Editor with Penguin Random House and the love of his life is… of course, books! He reads quite extensively, across a diverse range of genres and in multiple languages, including English, Hindi, Kannada and Punjabi. He is a writer as well and has written for Mint Lounge, The…
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My Life With Books: Vaishali Dinakaran
One of the very best motorsports journalists India has ever seen, Vaishali worked for leading publications like Autocar India, Business Standard Motoring and Overdrive, when she was based in Mumbai. Having moved to Germany a few years ago and now based in Berlin, she continues to write as a freelance journalist and has also branched…
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My Life With Books: Arunima Mazumdar
Delhi-based Arunima is a marketing and communications specialist with over 15 years of experience across journalism, publishing and digital advertising. Currently a senior account director with Moe’s Art, she has earlier worked with Doordarshan News and the Times Group, and managed PR and communications for Amazon. An excellent writer (see here), she’s written for Hindustan…
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‘I love Urdu’s linguistic flourish and flamboyant style’
New Delhi-based Prerna Kalbag has a Master’s degree in Literary Arts from Ambedkar University and a postgraduate diploma in International Human Rights, Humanitarian and Refugee Laws. She works in the education management industry and is a writer; her short stories, essays, poetry, and reviews have been published in leading magazines and literary journals. She is…
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My Life With Books: Sachin Rao
Based in London, Sachin is a commercial features Editor at Guardian News & Media. One of the best writers/editors in the business, he has worked in the UK since the mid-2000s. Before that, he was based in Bombay, working with leading newspapers like Business Standard, Indian Express and Mumbai Mirror. With an eclectic range of…
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My Life With Books: Srinivas Krishnan
A legend in his own lifetime, Mumbai-based Srinivas has been an automotive person in the communications business or a communications person in the automotive business all along – advertising, journalism, corporate and public relations. He is currently senior vice president of the Mobility Practice at a leading PR agency, while also a writer and columnist…
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Reading By Design: Professor G.V. Sreekumar
G.V. Sreekumar is Professor and former Head of IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay and his specialisations include Typography, Calligraphy, Publication Design, Information Graphics, Design Pedagogy, and Visual Semantics. Prof. Sreekumar studied Applied Art at M.S. University, Baroda, and Visual Communication at IDC, IIT Bombay. Since the year 2000, he has been a faculty…
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My Life With Books: Vinay Varma
Currently based in a remote village in Andhra Pradesh, Vinay is an independent scholar, philosopher, social scientist and poet. He is also a management consultant and has previously worked in the areas of planning, business development, IT product design, academic research and market research. We talk to him about his love for books and reading,…
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My Life With Books: Avik Chattopadhyay
Gurgaon-based Avik is a senior automotive industry professional who’s worked with Maruti Suzuki, Apollo Tyres, PSA Peugeot Citroën and Volkswagen among others. In recent years, he’s struck out in new directions and is co-founder at Expereal India and Emote AI. Avik has an eclectic range of interests and enjoys reading across diverse genres. His favourite…
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My Life With Books: Dr Radhika Praveen
With a PhD in creative writing, Dr Praveen is based in Milton Keynes, in the UK, where she lives with her husband and two boys. She misses her life in India where she hopes to return to one day, with her family. She likes to think of her life as a book, with chapters for…
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