About
About Ajay Jain
Author, Journalist / Columnist, Blogger, Photographer
Update June 2008: As things stand, I am now almost full time driving across India writing for my travel blog Kunzum.com and am also putting together some travelogues. Join me on my travels through this blog and discover this country in many different ways.
And now a bit of a background: I am a journalist, with a varied experience in writing and reporting on various subjects including business, sports, travel, youth, environment, technology and current affairs. I have been blogging professionally for many years, have been writing columns for leading national newspapers including The Hindustan Times, Mint, The Financial Express, Outlook Business, Rediff.com and Business Standard’s Indian Management. I have also written a book, Let’s Connect: Using LinkedIn to get ahead at work.
My previous experiences have been in the IT hardware industry and sports management, before I took to writing in 2001. I hold degrees in Mechanical Engineering (Delhi College of Engineering, 1992), Management (Fore School of Management, 1994) and M.A, Journalism (Cardiff University, UK, 2002).
After all this, I am now keenly pursuing travel writing, and in the process discovering this world and its people with very different eyes. Trust me, it has been an eye-opener so far, making the pursuits associated with urban life and its careers seem so futile and trivial. But no, I am not going to be the monk who would sell his Ferrari (not that I own one!!).
And since I cannot be immune to issues that trouble our society and the planet, I blog on consumer, public interest and environmental issues on my blog, AjayJain.com.
I also do some photography, with mixed results. Check out my collection on Flickr.
In another avatar, I am also the President of the Indian Blog and New Media Society.
Why I blog? Because it is my profession. To write, that is. For me any medium that connects me to my readers effectively is where my writings will go. I respect all forms of media for their respective strengths, and try to write for any that I can. Handled professionally, blogs can attract a following of their own, often larger than mainstream media. So I blog, in a manner that my readers find value.
About the Blog AjayJain.com
Much of the writing on this blog is what I personally experience in my daily life. As a consumer, as a citizen, as a professional and as someone seeking all that is beautiful in the world. But before I post anything, there has to be a qualifier: Does it matter to all of us? If not, then I keep it to myself. Why? Because this blog is also a work of journalism for me, and it has to touch my readers somewhere.I hope you enjoy reading this blog, and find value in it. Would love any comments on the posts. All feedback is valuable.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mobile: +91.99100 44476
Email: ajay@ajayjain.com
Address for correspondence only:
B-130 (SFS), Sheikh Sarai-I,
New Delhi 110 017, India
