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Annie Zaidi -- az
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Have:Stories, essays, novels (unwritten, abandoned, both), poetry, angst Want:Publishers, people who buy scripts/stories, dhaba, cottage in the hills, dog... And oh, world peace
Title:Not Quite Sure Home: Delhi, Delhi India
Company: Tehelka From: Here and there, but broadly from , UP India
Industry Category:NewspapersUniversities: MDS Ajmer XIC Mumbai
Industries: Writing (don't like to think of it as an industry, though), communication, journalism, research..., Interests: Writing, reading, dancing, conflict, traveling, day-dreaming, bathing, wallowing in nothingness,
Experience:
Senior ReporterFrontline Newspapers Industry
Edit coordinator, JLTTOI Newspapers Industry
ReporterMid-day Newspapers Industry

I write.

Because I like words. Because I derive my sense of self (and my lack of the self-sense) from words. Because sometimes, words are the only refuge there is.

Sometimes, I write for money.

More often, I generate a lot of words, for neither love nor money.... but simply because there is nothing else I can do.

To cut through the verbiage, I write for a living (Yes, you can do that). But news (reporting, editing etc) is my bread and butter.

What else do I write?
Poetry, mostly (some of it can be found on www.caferati.blogspot.com). A blog.

In sudden bursts of enthusiasm, I write prose, mostly non-fiction but increasingly, fiction too. A few scripts. A few short stories. [One of the last few additions to my collection of scripts was courtesy my last trip to Lucknow.... A winter walk in the nippy awadhi breeze, a lukewarm sun and time to stare.]

A few years ago, I was freelancing - writing for just about anybody who would pay... websites, magazines, papers, individuals. Very briefly, and rather disastrously, I worked with a small start-up firm called Qi Mediaworks (it was into making corporate films for... well, for corporates)

Before that, I've worked as a sub-editor, a reporter, an editorial coordinator, and a copy-editor (in that order).

Other Things I did -

Spent four months volunteering at the World Social Forum 2004. Lots of colour, lots of gyaan, lots of camaraderie, some dreadlocks.

A brush with the 'reds'. And a mild flirtation with a communist newspaper called Yugantar.

Also worked in Kathmandu, with the news division of a channel called Kantipur TV. Loved the city...love the people.

Someday, I want to go back to Kathmandu... they say that in the spring, the valley turns blue... blue mimosa blossoms line practically every street, every lane.

And I really don't know what I'm doing here. But I don't know what I'm doing in this world either. So, what the hell!

Speaking of hell, does anyone know of a lonely shack somewhere in a remote, hilly village? Because that's my vision of heaven (temporary, of course... as everything else). I can't afford one yet, but someday...

And I have nothing else to say right now.

Indulge me.
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