Blasts from the past - blogs of the present

Okay! There is nothing new about this blog except for the fact that i am writing it now. This is meant to be my archive for the work that i did in Asian College of Journalism, Chennai in 2006. While most of these would be the assignments that i did as a part of my course, i will always fondly remember each one of them as my experiments with the written word.

Yeah, i continue to be surprised as well when i imagine that i began to write only in ACJ. Pre J-School I had written diaries, absolutely devoted all my home-work time to only doing the essay-writing class work and even tried to infuse creative language into my dull boring college projects. Reading has been a hobby, books have been a childhood pal and their stories continue to be a window into an imaginary and a solely personal world. But ask me why i never wrote when writing is usually considered to be the logical next step after reading, and i don’t have an answer to that myself. Maybe it was laziness, or because sports held more interest for me when I was growing up and I couldn’t have been bothered with writing anything besides notes or exams. Or maybe i just needed a little but firm push in the right direction and that's what ACJ gave me.

Be it about a fond memory, a political rally or a boat ride with women sea-weed divers i wrote about it all during the nine ACJ months, feeling the words and the emotions behind them as i put them down. That year discovered that i could think the best on paper, swirl with the nucleus of a thought and eventually flesh it out.


Presenting some of my earliest forays into descriptive and news writing experiments from ACJ-2006- the year when I discovered ‘what I would do for the rest of my life’