Date of Birth                             January 10, 1970

 

Marital Status                           Married and two daughters

 

Telephone                                + 91 22 2615 0537

 

Experience                               Ten years

 

 

Current Job Profile

 

As a Researcher at Writer Corporation’s publication wing my job profile is as follows -

 

·        Conducting a thorough research about the story and its players, the credibility of the people interviewed and their expressed opinions, which are subject to scholastic inquiry.

·        Generating ideas for prospective stories by researching the current happenings reported in National and International media either by way of Print / TV / Internet. This also includes research from old issues of major publications and from the rare books and journals lying in the Libraries and access to which is open only for regular visitors of library.

 

Past Experience-

 

The profile with Wildoats India Pvt Ltd was as follows

 

• The firm Wildoats India Pvt Ltd is the name given by the Late eminent writer and poet Dom Moraes and Sarayu Srivatsa to their commercial writing ventures. I had been collaborating with them since April 2002. Before joining the current job where the above said writers are also consulting editors, I was involved in the research of their forthcoming work on the Afghan war of 1840.

 

Research on the project includes finding details on the lingua franca between the English officers and their servants, living conditions of the Afghans, their culture, and the Diary and writings of the Indian servants about their English masters and their life style during this period.

• I was the researcher for semi-biographical novel “The Long Strider”, authored by them, which was a British Council Project on an early 17^th century English writer, Thomas Coryate, who on his visit to India, died here.

 

The research involved the study of the social milieu, dress-codes, cuisines, climatic conditions, roads and communication set-up under Mughals, and cross checking the records of English and European writers vis a vis the records of official Mughal courtiers. The research was finished by April 2003 and the book was launched in the month of September 2003.

 

The job profile as Chief Image Researcher & Archivist for Wisden India included:

• Built the single largest collection of cricket images, which covered the beginning of Indian cricket, its past, present day glorious moments and the collective achievements of the various Indian teams.
• To complete this project it required me to find and contact past Indian cricketers, and approaching them to share their private collection of photographs, highlighting their personal achievements also.
• Co-ordinated with contemporary Indian cricket photographers and accessed their database to the complete this record. Transferred the entire collection of the images to a digital format. Furthermore captioned every image with its in-depth information, so that their access by image library software is simplified.

 

Work undertaken for Midday and Cricket Talk Dotcom as Editorial Archivist

• Planning and executing of digital archiving of the image library, newspapers and magazine
• Supervision of documentation and filing of newspaper and magazine clippings for archives
• Interface with editorial desk to provide appropriate research and photographs for articles to be written.
• Independently conducted and provided research, by accessing outside agencies, as and when called upon for the coverage of special issues by the editorial desk.

 

 

Past Experience - Research

 

• Where as other research assignments in the past include,

1. Ethnic Strife in Nagaland – This was a project undertaken at Xavier Institute of Communications [XIC] as part of our media studies. It included sourcing of information – books on tribes, newspaper clippings, historical accounts and journals. I was the chief co-ordinator and chief researcher for this project.
2. You Can Be Heard - This project at XIC was part of our audio-video media studies and included highlighting the successful achievements of Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.vis-à-vis its Telephone Adalats. The project included researching statistical information with regard to the telephone adalats, their awareness among the general public, and their effectiveness and efficiency in disposing of the telephone related complaints.
3. Jai Hind – This was a private assignment for Feel India Television/Cosmo Television. Research included an in-depth study and compilation of data on varied subjects for a quiz programme, commemorating the golden jubilee of India’s independence. Subjects included regional festivals, cuisine, architecture, freedom fight etc.

 

Besides this I had also provided research for a travel book project on Kerala, which was being planned by the publishing division of India Book House in 2000. The project is now abandoned.

 

 

Experience as researcher for television programmes includes, inter alia

 

Channel	Serial	Episodes	Mth/Yr of Telecast	Designation	Programme Content
ZEE TV	Adarniya Pradhan Mantri	13	Aug 96 to Jan 97	Roving Correspondent cum researcher	Current issues addressed by the general public to the Prime Minister of India.
ZEE TV	Jan Gan Man	96	Sept 95 to Apr 96	Full time political researcher	An in-depth national political programme with urban and rural inputs, which also examined social and economic issues in the parliamentary constituencies
ZEE TV	Jan Gan Man	26	Jan 96 to Apr 96	Assistant Director	Production and post production responsibilities included continuity, capsuling, financial records etc.
Sony	Surf Wheel of Fortune	20	Dec 96 to Feb 97	Freelance Researcher	Game Show

 

•  Administrative duties carried out for Zee Telefilms Ltd. during the coverage of eleventh parliamentary general elections in 1996:

q       Systems In-charge – This included planning and co-ordinating computers and allied machines, designing of election-related software, data entry and monitoring their hourly outputs.

q       News Co-ordinator – This included compilation of data from news agencies, newspapers and television.

q       Overall co-ordination for continuous input and output for the successful tie-up between Zee TV and 17 leading national and regional newspapers throughout India.

 

 

Firm	Designation	Period of Service
Writer Corporation,	Researcher	Jan 2004  to  Till date
Wildoats India Pvt Ltd [Dom Moraes & Sarayu Srivatsa]	Researcher	April 2002 to Dec 2003
Wisden Online India Pvt Ltd	Chief Image Researcher & Archivist	Jun 2001 – Mar 2002
Cricket Talk Dotcom Pvt Ltd	Editorial Archivist	Apr 2000 – Jan 2001
Midday Publications Ltd	Editorial Archivist	Dec 1998 – Mar 2000
Zee Telefilms Ltd	Political Researcher & Asst Director	Aug 1995 – Dec 1996
Mukadam & Associates	Assistant Auditor	Dec 1991 – Aug 1994 Jan 1997 – Aug 1998

 

 

Post.Graduate Diploma in Communication Arts – Journalism [1995]

Xavier Institute of Communications, Bombay.

 

Bachelor of Commerce [1991]

University of Bombay. Undergraduate studies at The Rizvi College of Art Science & Commerce, Bandra, Bombay.

 

S.S.C. [1985]

Schooled in Rev.C.F.Andrews High School, Santa Cruz [East], Bombay.

 

 

• Working knowledge of computer operations
• Applications known : Windows 98, Fotostation Pro 4, Adobe 6, MS Office 2000, Quicken etc

 

 

• Life member of the Asiatic Society of Bombay
• Annual member of ‘University of Bombay’ Library and Center for Education and Documentation Library, Colaba for the last nine years,

• Languages known         : English, Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu and Arabic
• Personal Preferences    : Hobbies and interests include reading and travelling

 

 

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