Inviting you for the house-warming ceremony

I started this blog almost 10 years ago. In the last 10 years, there have been only 50 posts. I have not been a serious blogger. The writing juice flowed once in a while. In fact, I had forgotten about the blog for a considerably long time in between. Sometimes, as a free user of …

Editors’ Conclave 2018 – Sessions that stayed: Part 2 of the keynote address by Dr. Selvin

Is editing really dead? No, not yet. Will editing be dead and forgotten? Maybe, maybe not. It's more of an answer based on your belief system. What Dr. Selvin delivered in his keynote address may not be the elixir for editing life, but is a prescription for how editing can stay fit and live longer. …

Editors’ Conclave 2018 – Sessions that stayed: Part 1 of the keynote address by Dr. Selvin

Nothing has caught the imagination of humankind than death. Different people approached death at different levels of understanding: denying it, defying it, delaying it, designing it…. While each of us believes that we are not going to die tomorrow, we know that there is one tomorrow that will see our death. When Mr. Selvin said …

Editors’ Conclave 2018 – Sessions that stayed with me: An editor’s journey

This is a guest post by Manjula Sridhar. In her own words, "As a child, I was fortunate to travel to Hyderabad, Mumbai and New Delhi because of my father’s transferable job and pursue the education in those places. This helped me cultivate social and adaptability skills, develop an interest in languages and appreciate the …

Editors’ Conclave 2018 – Sessions that stayed with me: Financial planning for editors

As many of you know, the first-ever editors' conclave was recently organized (in Feb 2018). My good friend Venkatesh and Chandra, whom I met and befriended during the conclave, wrote detailed notes on how it happened and how it felt. (I would love to link Chandra's narration of her experience, but could not find how …