Mile Stones

Date Of Birth - 5th April 1952.

Graduated - 1971

Journalism course from British Institutes, Bombay - 1973

Married in 1974 and was busy with bringing up two sons for the next decade. Picked up the threads of writing in 1987.

The momentum picked up soon after a brief stint in a New Delhi Magazine as a reporter. And then I took the plunge to be on my own, practicing journalism as an independent journalist, which I have been for the past 20 plus years.

I have been writing regularly on various subjects - lifestyle, women, education, environment, social issues, and often on business /management trends, for leading publications in India and abroad - Economic Times, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Pioneer, Financial Express, and Women's Feature Service, in India;
Business Times, Property Review, Peak Magazine, and Asia 21, and a weekly column for Tamil Murasu, in Singapore; and social trend pieces for other global publications like International Indian from Dubai.


And my contributions in Tamil include leading Tamil Magazines, Kumudam, Kungumam and Kalki.

At Work :

At present I enjoy writing...

Social trends and industry pieces for "Wealth", published by Global Magazines, Singapore.

I Cherish the period of :

• 4 years as Independent correspondent in Singapore, for The Economic Times. Covered the first WTO ministerial conference and other major regional and international events held in Singapore.
• 4 years as Columnist for Tamil Murasu, Singapore’s Tamil daily.
• 2 years string assignments from Delhi, for Singapore's Business Times.
• A fortnight of Daily Radio Talk on All India Radio
• 2 years of writing HR Talk column for Chennai based business magazine, “Industrial Economist”.
• 2 years of Management Column for “U” Magazine and
• One year as Editor of "Thisaigal" a Tamil Web Magazine.

Some small feats......

• Commissioned by NCERT, in 1992, to write a book in English on the “Portrayal of women in Tamil fiction.” The work is a supplementary reader for the age group of 14-16.
• A book of translation from Tamil, for The Hunger Project, the California based non -profit organisation. The book documents the experiences of a Village Woman President - her ordeals and efforts to bring drinking water to her people.
• A non-fiction book in Tamil on management, published by well known Tamil publishing house, Ananda Vikatan. The book focuses on modern Human Resource practices and draws parallel to ancient wisdom as found in fables and mythology.
  
  Peaks : Still Climbing
  
  
  Dream : A work of Fiction - Under Production......... or I think so...!!